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I do not regard the above account of Messrs. Beach and Vaiighan 

 as trustworth}', for the reason that I have never been able to find a 

 hunter in this wilderness, however aged, who had ever heard of a 

 hving Elk in the Adirondacks. 



Note 3. — It is also worthy of remark that wild horses, larger than 

 our domesticated stock, once roamed the borders of this region. Dr. 

 C. C. Benton, of Ogdensburg, has shown me several fossil molar teeth 

 of Equus major that were exhumed at Keenes Station near the 

 Oswegatchie Ox Bow in Jefferson County. I have compared them 

 with the corresponding teeth in an immense dray-horse, and find 

 them much larger. 



Note 4. — It is hard for us to realize that huge Elephants, in the 

 wild state, ever moved their ponderous bodies over this northern 

 Wilderness ; but the fact is incontestibly proved by the discovery of 

 their remains on both sides of the Adirondacks. Dr. Zadock Thomp- 

 son tells us that a fossil Elephant was found in a muck bed in the 

 township of Mt. Holly, Vermont, (in the Green Mountains,) at an ele- 

 vation of 141 5 feet, in the year 1848.'=' 



A tusk measuring five feet nine inches in length, over the curve, 

 was found, September 20. 1877, in a marl bed about a mile west of 

 the village of Copenhagen in Lewis County. It was purchased for 

 the State Cabinet by Dr. Eranklin B. Hough, who described it in the 

 Lowville Times. Whether this tusk belonged to an Elephant or a 

 Mastodon has not been determined. 



* Appendix to Thompson's Vermont. 1S53, pp. 14-15. Dr. Lcidy refers tliis specimen to 

 Elcplias Anuricanus (Vxi^c. Acad. N'at. .Sci., Pliila., VII, 392). 



