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the Delaware and Hudson canal. A considerable portion 

 of the skeleton has arrived in this city, and I have 

 enjoyed an opportunity of examining it. The bones which 

 I saw are in good preservation and seem to justify the 

 wishes of the proprietors to set up the entire skeleton. 

 The teeth are in perfect order. One of the tusks has 

 arrived ; it is a beautiful and perfect specimen, 9 feet long. 

 Jeremiah Van Rensselaer. Am. Jour. Set. 1828. 14:33 



Ulster county 



1859? Ellenville 



Tusk, parts of skull and several other bones; in State 

 Museum, which also has a smaller tusk marked as from 

 the same locality. 



Greene county 



1705 New Baltimore 



See Claverack, Columbia co. 

 Date? Greenville 



(Hall Geol. Fourth Dist. 1843. p. 367.) 

 1840 Freehold 



Atlas (American Museum of Natural History). 



Dutchess county 



1854 Poughkeepsie 



A skeleton of a mastodon has been recently discovered 

 buried in a marsh about 2 miles from Poughkeepsie, New 

 York. Its state of perfection is not known, as it is yet but 

 partly exhumed. This is the second specimen obtained 

 from the vicinity of this city. Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2. 1854- 

 18:447. 



This seems to me to be the same find recently described to 

 me by Prof. W. B. Dwight who writes : " The chief find of 

 mastodon bones here occurred 40 or perhaps 45 years ago in 

 a small circular pond (in an unusually dry season I believe) 

 on what is called the Creek road, and from 2 to 3 miles 

 northeasterly from the city. The bones were of large size 

 and were, I think, put into the hands of a library associa- 

 tion called the Lyceum. What became of them nobody 

 knows." 



A vertebra from Poughkeepsie is in the State Museum. 



