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Apalachi^n Mountains, both reach - 
, mg 4500 feet or more. 
ODOCOILEUS SPELEUS. 
8. ikscription of some of the fossil 
teeth found in a Cave in Penn- 
sylvania* By Co 8. Bajinesque . 
Among several curious fossils of 
the cabinet of Mr. Hayden in Balti- 
more, some teeth found in a Cave 
attracted my peculiar attention. Mr. 
Hayden had the goodness to present 
them to me: he stated that they had 
been found in the big cave of Car- 
lisle, in Pennsylvania, by Mr- War- 
del, who had broken them from a 
jawbone sticking out of the lime 
rock, and in fact one of the teeth is 
united to its socket and the fragment 
of a jaw. 
This, statement induced me to vi- 
sit this locality, and new cave with 
fossils remains, which I did last Au- 
gust, in hope of finding more bones 
or teeth in it* A wonderful descrip- 
tion of this cave published several 
years ago in the port-folio, made me 
expect something extraordinaryi but 
1 was as usual disappointed, since 
all these wonderful accounts are ex- 
aggerated. I found however the cave 
interesting enough in other respects! 
it is situated in the Big Valley, be- 
tween the South and North Moun- 
tains, about one mile North of Car- 
lisle on the banks of the Conocochig 
Creek, at the end of the limestone 
region and the verge of a slaty form- 
ation, being the main outlet of a 
Cavernose hill, with many holes, 
sinks and craters of eruptive forma- 
tion as in Kentucky. But the rock 
is a kind of blue lias or compact 
limestone with thick inclined strata 
and no fossils in them. The cave 
however is incrusted with stalagmites 
and a limy crust of recent forma- 
tion, in which the teeth must have 
been found partly imbedded. In my 
exploration of this cave I could not 
find any more teeth nor bones. The 
account in the port-folio states that 
bones were found at first at the bot- 
tom of the cave, which were mista- 
ken for bones of Indians and scat- 
tered or lost: it is very probable that 
they were fossil diluvial bones. 
I shall give hereafter a view and 
plan of this cave. The floor of it is 
not diluvial but Stalagmital and 
formed since the flood, but it may 
overlay a diluvial bottom, and it 
might be worthwhile to dig in it Tor 
fossils, as they have done in Similar 
caves of Europe.. 
Meantime I have carefully exam- 
ined and compared the teeth in my 
possession, and I cannot refer them 
to any living animal. Mr. Hayden 
thought they belonged to an extinct 
animal akin to the Hog. It may be 
so ! but hogs have not hollow teeth. 
Therefore I have called them Odo - 
coileus meaning teeth well, hoi loivedy 
and I give the exact figures of them 
of natural size, that Oryctologists 
may further compare them and re- 
duce them to their proper family: 
which is perhaps near to the tribe of 
goats or dwarfish oxen. 
Odocoileus* Generic characters 
of the teeth. Grinders trilobate before 
three large ribs and two broad fur- 
rows between, middle rib of lobe 
longest and largest: convex and un- 
lobed behind. Centre with' a deep 
lunulated hollow with a Semiparti- 
tion on one sid q .-—Remarks, the en- 
amel covers the whole teeth, even 
the hollow inside, the brim has a 
suture throughout evincing a tenden- 
cy to a double laminar structure. 
The roots have no enamel, they have 
% or 3 unequal conical prongs with 
a visible hole at the end. Resem- 
bling by the ribs some Oxen teeth 
but size of a goat. 
Odocoileus Speleus or cave Odo- 
coil. Specific characters.— -Size of 
