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MAX AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 



At the close of the Tertiary period the mastodon became 

 extinct on the Eastern Continent, but continued in North 

 America to be a companion of man well on toward the- 

 close of the Glacial period. Many perfect skeletons have 



Fig. 88-— Mastodon Americanus (after Oweu). 



been found in the deposits of this period in North Amer^ 

 ica. " One magnificent specimen was found in a marsh 

 near Newburg, New York, with its legs bent under the 

 body, and the head thrown up, evidently in the very posi- 

 tion in which it mired. The teeth were still filled with 

 the half-chewed remnants of its food, which consisted of 

 twigs of spruce, fir, and other trees ; and within the ribs, 

 in the place where the stomach had been, a large quantity 

 of similar material was found." * 



The Ehixoceros is now confined to Africa and south- 



* Le Conte's Geology (edition of 1891), p. 582. 



