148 FOOD AND HAIR. . 



mud. Hence it has happened, perhaps, that so many of the remains . have 

 been found imbedded in lacustrine deposits, where they have been preserved 

 to the present time for the examination of the naturalist. 



The Hair. The Hair. — Mr. Graham, in the "New York Medical Expository," 



vol. iv. page 414, says : "In Montgomery there was found hair of the Mas- 

 todon three inches long, and of a dun color." Judge Miller, in describing 

 the discovery and appearance of a skeleton at Shawangunk, Ulster County, 

 says that " around and in the immediate vicinity were locks and tufts of 

 hair, of a dun brown, of an inch and a half to two and a half inches long, 

 and, in some instances, from four to seven inches in length." 



Professor De Blainville, in the " Geology of the Mastodon," page 340, 

 records another instance in these words : " M. Lesueur, who lived for 

 several years at New Harmony, exhibited to me the drawings of an almost 

 entire mandible, at least in its two horizontal branches, one of which 

 contains the two last molars. It was found at "White Elver, between Vin- 

 cennes and Harmony, and presented to the library of the former of these 

 cities by M. Badollet, one of its curators. He states that other bones — a 

 fine vertebra, a femur, and epiphyses, the drawings of which M. Lesueur 

 also showed me — are in the same library. They were found at the depth 

 of' more than sixty feet, in digging a well in another part of the same 

 State, nearer the entrance of the Wabash into the Ohio ; and, according to 

 M. Badollet, in company with skin and hair." 



Additional authority, in regard to the possible preservation of hair, may 

 be found in the account by Mr. Adams of the condition of the fossil elephant 

 discovered in Asiatic Russia, in 1801. He says, under date of 1806 : — 

 " More than thirty pounds weight of the hair and bristles of this 



