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whale of much smaller dimensions. A cervical vertebra. 

 and the lower jaw of a very young whale-calf were also ob- 

 served. The teeth, several in number, from the lower jaw 

 of the large individual, were detached and slightly broken 

 at their bases ; the largest measures six inches in length and 

 six and a half in circumference. 



The long process of bone, or " horn'''' as it has been called 

 by several observers, is a mutilated portion of some of the fa- 

 cial bones, erroneously attached to a process on the upper 

 and outer side of the large bone. 



On comparing the large bone, with the same portion in 

 the specimen of the head of a similar animal in the cabinet 

 of the Acad, of Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, known to have been 

 thirty feet in length, (and to have yielded eighteen or twenty 

 barrels of oil,) — and on taking the comparative measure- 

 ments, the animal whose remains we are discussing, is de- 

 monstrated to have been about fifty three feet in length. 



The average sizeof the common spermaceti whale is from 

 forty to sixty feet ; they inhabit the polar regions principal- 

 ly, but are sometimes found in the temperate regions. The 

 Physeter trumpo (Desne.) which according to Linnaeus and 

 Cuvier, is only a variety of the P. macrocephalus, is an in- 

 habitant of the coast of Bermuda and of North America. 



The skeleton of the head of the P. macrocephalus is fig- 

 ured by Baron Cuvier, Oss. foss. vol. 5. pt. 1. pi. 34. 



P. S. — I have lately discovered the remains of a huge 

 Megatherium, in New Jersey, nine miles south east of Phi- 

 ladelphia, in a marl pit, on the farm of I. Tod, Esq. of Phila. 

 some account of which, I propose shortly to publish. 



4. Teeth of the Mastodon. — Among the numerous pub- 

 lished accounts of places in which remains of the Masto- 

 don have been found, we believe that few have been named 

 in the eastern states.* 



We have now the pleasure of stating a fact of that kind. 

 During the excavation of the Farmington canal near the 

 village of Cheshire in Connecticut, about thirteen miles 

 north from New Haven, there were found, the last summer, 

 three or four large molar teeth of the mammoth. Being bu- 

 ried in diluvial gravel, where there had probably never been 

 any putrescent matter, they were almost in the condition of 



* Since writing this memorandum we are reminded that some remains of the 

 Mammoth were found in Sharon, Connecticut, a good many years ago. 



