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them is with the skeleton here), three or four 

 small grinders, a few vertebrae of the back and 

 tail, a broken scapula, some toe-bones, and 

 the ribs, found between four and seven feet 

 deep — a reluctant terminating pause ensued. 



These bones were kept distinct from those 

 found at Masten's, as it would not be proper 

 to incorporate into one skeleton any other than 

 the bones belonging to it -, and nothing more 

 was intended than to collate the corresponding 

 parts. These bones were chiefly valuable as 

 specimens of the individual parts ; but no bone 

 was found among them which was deficient in 

 the former collection, and therefore our chief 

 object was defeated. To have failed in so 

 small a morass was rather discouraging to the 

 idea of making another attempt ; and yet the 

 smallness of the morass was probably the cause 

 of our failure, as it was extremely probable 

 the bones we could not find were long since 

 decayed, from being situated on the rising 

 slope at no considerable depth, unprotected 

 by the shell marie, which lay only in the lower 

 part of the bason forming the morass. When 

 every exertion was given over, we could not 

 but look at the surrounding unexplored parts 



