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mageniuSy Blumenbach.) I am indebted to the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Littlefield, one of the members of our 

 senate, for a molar tooth of this animal. I cannot say 

 any thing of the situation in which it was deposited. It 

 was discovered after a freshet on the banks of Green's 

 Lick creek — a little creek running across the plantation 

 of Mr. L., and falling into Duck river a few miles be- 

 low Columbia, Maury county. This tooth is much al- 

 tered ; its enamel is brittle, and has lost much of its 

 original constituents, it being soluble in nitric acid, un- 

 der a constant and brisk effervescence. 



In a small collection belonging to Mrs. Ephraim Fos- 

 ter, of Nashville, is a large tooth of a similar Elephant, 

 which was found, according to Mrs. Foster, forty feet 

 under ground, by digging for a well in the vicinity of 

 Gallatin, Sumner county, Tenn. 



Remains of the Megalonyx Jeffersonii, found in the 

 state of Tennessee, 



The remains of a more uncommon animal have been 

 found in the state of Tennessee. About twenty-four or 

 twenty-five years ago, a number of large bones were 

 discovered in a cave, ransacked at that time for ma- 

 terials for the preparation of saltpetre, situated near the 

 western boundary of White county, and from this cir- 

 cumstance has since borne the name of Big-bone-cave. 

 A friend of mine, Squire Moses Fisk, of Hilham, Tenn., 

 obtained some of these bones from a person who lived in 

 the neighborhood of the cave. He presented one of them, 



