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1 From Rockland county, in 1817 ; and from Chester, Orange co. . . . 



2 In the same year, remains were found in the city of Rochester, 4 

 feet below the surface, in a hollow or water course. 



3 In 1823, more than one half of a lower jaw, with the teeth, 

 on the shore of Long-Island, between high and low water mark, about 

 four miles east of the county court-house at Riverhead, Suffolk co. . . . 

 It may be noted that a very large molar, in Dr Morton's collection, 

 was fished up from a similar locality, namely, in the ocean at Long 

 Branch, N. J. . . . 



4 At Geneseo, Livingston co. (see Am. jour. 12 : 381) the greater part 

 of a skeleton was found in a marsh 2^ feet below the surface, in vege- 

 table mould, and resting upon a bed of fine white gravel. 



5 In 1834, the molar tooth of this species was found near Jamestown, 

 Chautauqua co. 



6 A fine portion of the lower jaw of a young mastodon, from the town 

 of Montgomery, Orange co. . 



7 In the town of Shawangunk, Ulster co. 



8 At Perrinton, near Rochester, Monroe co. 



9 At Coeymans, Albany co. 



10 At Hinsdale, Cattaraugus co , a tusk was found 17 feet beneath the 

 surface. The soil was composed of alternate strata of sand and gravel. 



11 In 1841, in a bed of marl three miles south of Le Roy, [a tooth ?] 

 weighing two pounds. 



12 A tooth was found in digging a mill-race on Goat Island, Niagara 

 co., 12 or 13 feet below the surface" ('42, p. 103-4). 



The remains of numerous mastodons have been found in New York 

 since 1842, but it is hardly necessary to bring together a complete list. 



Warren ('52) records a nearly complete skeleton discovered near New- 

 burgh in 1845. 



Hall ('71) records a skeleton, likewise essentially perfect, from Cohoes. 

 He says: " In the month of September 1866 the workmen engaged in 

 excavations for the foundation of a new mill to be erected by the 

 "Harmony mills co. of Cohoes, N Y." discovered the lower jaw of a 

 mastodon with a single foot bone, resting upon a projection of rock 

 between two depressions or concave walls of small pot-holes in the 

 margin of what afterward proved to be a larger pot-hole'' ('71, p. 99). 

 Further excavations brought to light the remainder of the skeleton, some 

 parts of which lay 60 feet away from the spot where the jaw was found. 

 This specimen is in the N. Y. state museum. 



Clarke ('88) reports the discovery of bones of a mastodon or elephant 

 (probably the former) in the village of Attica, Wyoming co. This speci- 

 men is specially interesting on account of its close association with human 

 relics. 



