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sent me the drawing of a jaw tooth with four pair of denticuli and a 

 fang, in a state of perfect preservation. It was found at Tulezyn, a 

 city of the ancient palatinate of Braklaw, at present comprehended 

 in the government of Podolia, situated on one of the tributaries of the 

 Bog. It bears a singular resemblance, in shape and colour, to that of 

 Lombardy, which I have given in plate 29, fig. 2. 



Additional Article on the Narroio-toothed Mastodon, and on the 

 Bones of the Mamniiferous Animals of the Lignites. 

 In addition to those already recounted, I have received many teeth 

 of this species, or drawings of teeth, from France, Italy, Germany, 

 and England. M. Ranzani has sent me the model of a large one found 

 on the ridge of the Apennines, fronting Bologna. A short time since, 

 a very superb one was discovered near Montpellier. To the kindness 

 of M. Veran I am indebted for a fine drawing of this specimen. It 

 has twelve knobs or hills, all divided, and its length reaches 0,237. 

 But the finest piece of this kind which has fallen under my observa- 

 tion, is the half of a lower jaw, which is only defective in a small por- 

 tion of its coronoid apophysis. A coloured model of it has been sent 

 to the King's Museum by the Count de Breuner, supervisor of the 

 mines of Austria. It was found on the estate of that gentleman, at 

 Steltenhof, in the circuit of lower Manhatzberg, in lower Austria, and 

 about three leagues to the north-west of Krembs, where we have seen, 

 in a former part of the present volume, that in 1645 some bones of this 

 description, supposed to be those of giants, were found. This half jaw, 

 according to the account which the Count de Breuner has done me 

 the honour to address to me, was found on the summit of a hill, at an 

 elevation of four hundred feet above the Danube. It was lying in a 

 ferruginous, agglutinated sand, which reposed upon a coarse calcare- 

 ous layer, and which is covered by the moveable earth, in which the 

 bones of elephants, and sometimes of the rhinoceros, are found. Thus 

 the bones of the mastodon are found at a greater depth, and almost inva- 

 riably broken . Those of the elephant and the rhinoceros are nearer 

 the surface and more entire. M. de Breuner has moreover made the 

 extraordinary discovery of no less than five skeletons in the same spot. 

 This mastodon's jaw, of which I am speaking, is very similar to that 

 of the great mastodon; its angle is less rounded than that of the ele- 

 phant, its inferior edge is more rectilinear, and its beak is more pro- 

 jecting. It has a first tooth of eight denticuli, and a fang, rather 

 worn, as well as a second of eight denticuli, but still perfect. Taken 

 together, they occupy a space of 0,32 in length : the height of the con- 

 dyloid apophysis, above the inferior edtre, is 0,45, that of the coronoid, 

 0,40; the breadth of the ascending branch beneath the two apophyses, 

 is 0,3 ; the height of the dental branch, between the two teeth, is 0,19, 

 and in front of the anterior, 0,24. From this point, the oblique line 

 descending to the extremity of the beak is 0,24. 



M. Boue, so well known by his geological descriptions of Scotland 

 and Germany, as well as by his numerous lucubrations, has assured me 

 that he saw some of those bones of the mastodon in the Imperial Mu- 

 seum of Vienna, in a dross w^hich he considered analogous to chalk. 

 They were found in Leithagebirge, a chain of mountains which sepa- 



