Oklahoma, 2000. Population and Housing Unit Counts

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...inhabited this region, and become extinct previous to the discovery, or at least the settlement of this country by the Europeans. The largest piece appears to belong to the extreme back tooth of the under jaw, and is 8 inches in length, 4 inches in breadth, and 3 inches in height, from where it has rested on the jaw bone to the head or top of the tooth, (though it evidently appears that one-half of its original size is worn away by mastication), weighing 3 pounds 6 ounces, Avoirdupois weight. The enamel is the principal part of the tooth that is preserved; the root or periostium is chiefly decayed and, upon being exposed to the air, moulders away. The ditcher, before he discovered the teeth, broke them while digging with the spade: these are full of marrow resembling lard. If you should deem a further discovery necessary to aid you in your scientific pursuits, I shall be happy to see you at my residence, or I will carefully preserve the pieces, and bring them with me to New-York for your inspection and examination. The mastodon remains were presented to Mitchill and by him donated to the New York Lyceum of Natural History. Mitchill states2 that the bones were found on E. Suffern's farm, 32 miles from New York City, and 11 miles west of the Hudson river, in New Antrim, Hemstead town (now Ramapo). The locality is near the west border of the Triassic area (Newark formation) of Rockland county and within a mile of the New Jersey state line. 11817, 2:46. See also p. 56, 57. 'Catalogue of Organic Remains presented to the New York Lyceum of Natural History by Samuel L. Mitchill, New York, 1826. Cat. no. 3( p. 11. Another account of this mastodon is given by Mitchill3 and he states that the fatty substance contained in the cavities of...