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The Michigan Mastodon

The Michigan Mastodon image
Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
June
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tbe Cliioago Interior publiubea a letter from Mr. Nichcla. of Teoumwb dsted Muy ISth, aud declares bim 0 bf "a roau of couscicuce and uudersiauduie ' He suya : "Our village and vicinity cnn-titute a soeno of special interen jugt now 0') account of an anciei.t fonil reof'nili bro.ght to Iigfat. A few dm „R0 as some iüci wcre cutting a ditcb thïuugb a piece of low hw, some four miles nortbcaatof ourvillago, they c.-.me upon somo l.uiio bones, whioh, ou furtber in ves-iiiHtiou, prove.l to bo the bone,. of B Mastodom ÏIihjt were mbedded in h Btratuui compoeij mainly of clay and sand, of yllowish eomplezhm, overL.i.i v ab.-ut two r two „nd a half fet of black milck, and hmvfog a mraturn of very rnoit and moru thomugljly dtested vegotable mat Ier undemoiith Direcilv over ihe prinoipal raatna utood an oak ree r,f s,oino eiuhtecn iucbes iu dm meter aiidliaving fifty-fh'e eonci-ntno circles ' 1 he keleton, is a wh Je, wa? vrv mporlect, boih as to tfce uuinber of necea aud o reepeet to preaervation feomeoftbe paris, however, to uit vcrtob.a, part of the jaw, a poriion of a tusic, several molare, leg bonis, etc , were iu a very Datara I state. From the won. state of the teolh it ig nferrcd veiy naturally, that the animal was old. The bones airo, heing rouch dieperged about ve.au aiea pfwinf thirty feet diameter would si-em to indícate tbat the creaiure as i.ot inadvertently cast o the miro ut that u had, ihrough weaknew, d by trnie ür difluaw, luid dewu upin lbgrounë, died, aud boen torn in pieces by surviving aud devourinj; wild beasts. 'As to the dimensions of the ani-nal I Professor ffioohell, of the Univetsity of Michigan, havinu examioed the romaius ibinks tbat it must have stood somú twflve or thirtceu feet in Iength. The njain-tusk, of whioh a section, ab..ut one ;.id in Iength, is in tolerablo pr.;servation, is usourtaiDcd (o have been, when entiro, aboat Dioe aod a half feet in Iength. -This conclusión is reachert bv tneasuring the matrix iu whiob it repos d, aud which, from the cUy ,f which it is niamly composed, is in a remarkable tateofpreservation. Ita diameter in ;lie middle is nearly or quite four inches, md the curve, wbjoh m upward, was' 'ery gentío aiul graceful. 13ut, alas, a jrodigioHS weapou to contend with !"

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Subjects
Mastodons
Old News
Michigan Argus