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GEOLOGY OF THE FOURTH DISTRICT. 
two localities have been noticed on the east side of the Hudson, within New-York. In New- 
England the remains of this animal are comparatively rare, and their occurrence has been 
recorded in only a few localities.* This rarity, when contrasted with the numerous localities 
in Western New-York, and the still greater number in the Western States, shows that the 
animal found a more congenial condition of the surface, or climate, at the west than among 
the primary regions of New-England and New-York. 
The following are the localities which have been recorded, or have fallen under my own 
observation within the Fourth District: 
1. In the town of Perrinton, in the bank of a small stream, in gravel and sand. A tusk and 
several teeth were found at this place, which are now in the Rochester Museum. 
2. In 1817, some remains were found in Rochester, in a hollow or water course.! 
3. In 1838, during the excavation of the Genesee Valley canal, at its junction with Sophia- 
street in the city of Rochester, a tusk, some bones of the head, several ribs, parts of two 
vertebrae, and some portion of the pelvis were found, intermingled with gravel and covered by 
clay and loam, and above these a deposit of shell marl. These bones are now in the State 
Collection. The tusk is said to have been nine feet long, but was nearly destroyed by the 
workmen before removing it from the clay. A portion of a tibia was also found, which is in 
the Rochester Museum. 
4. During the excavation of the Erie canal at Holley in Orleans county, a large molar tooth 
was found in a swamp near the village4 
5. A molar tooth was found in digging a mill-race at Niagara falls, several feet below the 
surface. The deposit in which it occurs is a fine gravel and loam containing fresh-water 
shells, and is evidently a fluviatile deposit. 
6. In a small muck swamp in Stafford, Genesee county, a small molar tooth was found 
several years since. Its situation was beneath the muck, and upon a deposit of clay and sand. 
A large quantity of hair-like confervas, of a dun brown color, occurs in this locality ; and so 
much does it resemble hair, that a close examination is required to satisfy one’s self of its 
true nature. 
7. In 1841, a molar tooth, weighing two pounds, was found in a bed of marl three miles 
south of Le Roy. 
8. At Geneseo in Livingston county, several years since, a large number of bones and 
three teeth were found in a swamp beneath a deposit of muck, intermingled with a sandy 
calcareous marl. A single tooth, in the possession of C. H. Bryan, Esq. of Geneseo, is the 
only known remaining specimen of this collection. The figure at the head of the chapter is 
from this fossil. 
9. At Hinsdale, Cattaraugus county, a tusk, with some horns of deer, were found sixteen 
feet beneath the surface, in gravel and sand. 
* See Hitchcock’s Geological Report, page 402. f See New-York Fauna, Vol. 1, Part 1, p. 103. 
t For this information I am indebted to Col. Elisha Johnson of Rochester, having seen no published notice of it. 
