The American journal of science and arts . Miscellanies. 203 horses measure | of an inch. This would make the original length ofthe tooth more than four inches. The size of the tooth in other direc-tions was about proportional. Now as these measurements go far overthose for our largest horses, they would seem to indicate a fossil horse largerthan those of the present epoch; whereas Cuvier says that all the bonesof horses seen by him, indicated the former existence of small horses.{OssemensFossiles, 3d edition, Vol. II. pp. 112, 113.) This fossil is ren-dered interesting, as the remains of the
The American journal of science and arts . Miscellanies. 203 horses measure | of an inch. This would make the original length ofthe tooth more than four inches. The size of the tooth in other direc-tions was about proportional. Now as these measurements go far overthose for our largest horses, they would seem to indicate a fossil horse largerthan those of the present epoch; whereas Cuvier says that all the bonesof horses seen by him, indicated the former existence of small horses.{OssemensFossiles, 3d edition, Vol. II. pp. 112, 113.) This fossil is ren-dered interesting, as the remains of the horse are but seldom found fossilin The enamel of all these teeth is in a good state of preservation; theinternal or bony parts have a peculiar ferruginous color, a little deeperthan that of the sandy clay in which they were found; they are very fra-gile. The large mastodons tooth and that of the horse were found im-mediately together, at a considerable depth (several feet) beneath theoriginal surface. These fossils came from a neighborhood which seems to abound in thoseof the mastodon. A molar was found about six or seven miles from thesame place, several years since, weighing 13 pounds. It was sent to Eng-land by the person who obtained it. Those lately found are in my charge, deposited in the cabinet of theCollege of Louisiana. 204 Miscellanies. 1. Sienitic Granite, near Christiana, Norway.—An eminent Englishgeologist, who has recently visited this famous granite, states, that itoccupies a mountainous country, and has (geologically considered) thetrue granite character, and that Von Buch was quite right in affirmin
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