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where the former had been found ; but although neither labour nor 
expense was spared, they were not rewarded by finding any of the 
more important and illustrative parts of the animal. Another attempt 
was then made in a morass, about eleven miles from the former, where 
almost an entire set of ribs was found, but nothing more. After this, 
they searched a morass about twenty miles west from Hudson River ; 
and here, after a series of disappointments, and slight successes, they 
found a right os humerus, a radius and ulna of the left side, the right 
scapula, the atlas, a complete under-jaw, and the great object of their 
pursuit, the upper part of the head, which was, however, so rotten, 
that they could only preserve the teeth and a few fragments. 
From the whole of the bones which they obtained, two skeletons 
were formed, composed of the appropriate bones of the animal, or exact 
imitations from the real bones in the same animal, or from those of the 
same proportion in the other. Mr. R. Peale, who has given a descrip- 
tion of this animal, asserts, that there is one bone less in the neck of 
this animal than in that of the elephant, never having met with a single 
bone resembling a seventh vertebra of the neck. The dorsal vertebrae 
were supposed to agree in number with those of the elephant ; as 
nineteen of these vertebrae and as many ribs were found, one in all 
probability having been lost: three vertebrae were thus left for the loins. 
From the formation of the teeth, the disposition of the enamel, the 
incapacity in the jaw for lateral motion, and from the condyloid pro- 
cess, which is finished with an oblong head, being inserted into a 
transverse groove, Mr. Peale concludes this must have been a carni- 
vorous animal. The teeth of the upper and lower jaws, when shut, 
he observes, must have had their points and depressions fit into each 
other, like the teeth of two saws and whilst shut must have been 
immoveable laterally, and consequently incapable of triturating, like 
the teeth of graminivorous animals. 
The roots or fangs of the teeth, Mr. Peale observes, are inserted into 
the mass of bone, which not oidy surrounds the roots, but divides one 
