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and marl. The search for the remaining bones was without a guide, but was not wholly in 

 vain : it resulted in discovering the small tusk of the lower jaw, and all except the phalanges 

 (toe-bones) of the left hind-foot. The skeleton is deficient in these bones ; a portion of them 

 have been since found by searching the field upon which the marl was spread. During the 

 exhumation, the anterior portion of the sternum was discovered in its proper relative position." 



A very recent instance of the discovery of Mastodon bones has occurred, which serves to 

 confirm and illustrate the statements made in regard to the previous case, and in the course of 

 our text. The deposit in which they were situated was near to that of the Cambridge Mastodon. 

 The bones, so far as we can learn, are in a state of partial decomposition. 



" A Mammoth exhumed in Sussex. — The fossil remains of one of those extinct animals 

 which probably roamed through our wilds in the days of the patriarchs were discovered on 

 Saturday last, imbedded in a bog-meadow, a short distance below Greensville, in this county, 

 on the premises and near the residence of Timothy H. Cook, Esq. The development of these 

 animal relics was singularly accidental. The bogs in the meadow had been cut off; and, in 

 burning them, one of the stacks was made around and upon an old stump. When the bogs 

 composing this stack were consumed, the stump and roots were likewise destroyed, and the 

 ground penetrated several inches by the fire. Upon clearing away the ashes, Mr. Cook noticed 

 a large bone, and undertook to pull it up. It proved a tough job ; but it was at last partially 

 extricated, when he perceived it to be the tusk of some animal of enormous size. Excavations 

 were thereupon immediately commenced, and prosecuted in right good earnest, when a second 

 huge tusk, the upper and lower jaws, with the teeth entire, portions of the vertebra, several ribs, 

 a thigh-bone, and various other gigantic fragments of a buried Behemoth, were successively 

 exhumed from the bed of muck and tertiary strata, in which, for thousands of years, they had 

 profoundly reposed. The bones of the head must have been near the surface, judging from the 

 position of the skeleton, yet but few of them were found ; the skull, &c, probably having been 

 calcined and pulverized by the action of the fire kindled in the bogs', stump, and roots imme- 

 diately above them. The teeth, of which there are eight or ten, have those conical projections 

 upon their surface which warrant us in pronouncing the animal a Mastodon. 



" The ' New York Tribune ' describes the bones discovered, and presumes ' the remains to 

 be those of some monster of the Mastodon genus ; for it is well known that the valley of the 

 Delaware, and the tributaries of that river, were frequented bv these animals,' &c." — Sussex- 

 Register, Sept. 27, 1851. 



