THE GREAT MASTODON. 
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Museum of Natural History in Philadelphia, 
succeeded in completing, so far as to give a 
tolerable idea of the form and size of this animal. 
In one of the deposits of bones found at Withe, 
in Virginia, a mass of little branches, grass, and 
leaves, in a half bruised state, among them a 
species of rose, now common in Virginia, were 
found enclosed in a kind of sac, which is the 
authority authors have, independent of their 
reasoning from its structure, that the animal 
fed on these substances ; while there are records 
existing of the natives having found, with some 
heads, “ a long nose, under which was the 
mouth.” 
When these remains came under the inspection 
of Baron Cuvier, he at once considered them as 
belonging to an animal, which would form a 
genus different from the Elephant, and proposed 
for it the title of Mastodon, from the mammillary 
form of the teeth ; and after concluding his 
examination, he sums up the whole, by giving an 
opinion of the form and mode of life of this 
animal. 
“ That the great Mastodon, or animal of the 
Ohio, resembled the Elephant in its tusks and 
osteology, except in the form of the grinders ; that 
it had most probably a trunk ; that its height did 
not surpass that of the Elephant, but that it was 
of a larger form, and had thicker limbs, with a 
