Qh THE MISSOURIUM. 
with five joints, but has no thumb. The crown is entirely 
different in construction from that of the fore foot. A few of 
the teeth appeared to have been broken out by the force of the 
rocks thrown at the head of the animal, and were carried some 
little distance; so that they escaped in a measure the violence 
of the fire, and have all the appearance of those of a car- 
nivorous animal. - 
The second trace of human existence with these animals, I 
found during the excavation of the Missouri Leviathan. There 
was embedded immediately under the femur or hind leg bone 
of this animal, an arrow-head of rose colored flint, resembling 
those used by the American Indians, but of a larger size. 
This was the only arrow-head immediately with the skeleton; 
but in the same strata ata distance of five or six feet, in a 
horizontal direction, four more arrow-heads were found; three 
of these were of the same formation as the preceding: the — 
fourth was of a very rude workmanship. One of the last men- 
tioned three was of agate, the others of blue flint. These 
arrow-heads are indisputably the work of human hands. I 
examined the deposit in which they were embedded, and raised 
them out of their embedment with my own hands. 
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E. Fisher, Printer, 33, Cannon-street, City. 
