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recent teeth in a state of extreme dryness ;* they had belong- 

 ed to an old animal, for the enamel and the processes were 

 much worn and brightly polished by grinding ; the enamel 

 was of a brilliant white and very firm, but the proper osseous 

 structure beneath, although white as snow, was so porous and 

 tender, that the least force was sufficient to crush it to pow- 

 der. It had a distinct columnar structure and a smell like 

 dry magnesia. The extreme dryness of the teeth, was proba- 

 bly the reason why they were easily crushed, in a frolic, in 

 which some jolly Hibernian Canal diggers threw one of their 

 number upon the grinders and they broke to pieces. Some 

 research was made, but no other bones were found as the op- 

 erations of the canal in this quarter did not require deep dig- 

 ging. 



New York Times, July 25, 1827. 



Mammoth. — In excavating the Morris Canal, near Schoo- 

 ley's Mountain, N. J., on the 20th inst. the skeleton of a mam- 

 moth was found, about three feet beneath ths surface, in a 

 remarkable state of preservation. It is stated to be enor- 

 mously large, and that one of the tusks weighs one hundred 

 and fifty pounds. ( ?) Mr. Peter C. Bowne, who has pur- 

 chased the skeleton, says, that the grinders look remarkably 

 fresh, though they may have lain buried a thousand years. 

 The following description of these bodies is given in the De- 

 mocratic Press : — 



The inferior maxillary or lower jaw bone, measured be- 

 tween the outer extremities of the condiloid processes, or at 

 the back part of the jaw bone, three feet six inches, from the 

 anterior to the posterior part of the bone, three feet eight 

 inches. The foramen, which serves for the passage of the 

 artery, vein and nerve from which the teeth, &c. receive their 

 supply, is two inches in diameter, which would admit the 

 blood vessels, (though not one tenth as large as some other,) 

 to have been larger than the largest blood vessel in a horse. 

 The teeth are entire; the enamel on them is sound and perfect, 

 and of a shining bright, blue veined, marble color. The 

 dimensions of one of them taken on the grinding sur- 

 face, were three and a half inches wide, and seven long, and 

 it weighed four pounds. The tusk measured two feet in cir- 

 cumference, and seven in length, and from appearances, we 

 should suppose it to have been of a much greater length. 



* We axe told, however, that the place was moist. 



