The Pleistocene of North America: and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95°Hay, Oliver Perry
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The Pleistocene of North America: and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95°
Hay, Oliver Perry
Paleontology -- North America; Paleontology -- Pleistocene; Vertebrates, Fossil
3. _Head of Cooper River, Berkeley County._—John Drayton, in his “View
of South Carolina,” in 1802, page 39, plate, figure 4, mentions the
discovery of fossil bones in Biggin Swamp, made in digging a canal
between Santee and Cooper Rivers. It appears probable that this swamp is
not far from Monks Corner. Drayton’s figure shows that the tooth was one
of _Mammut americanum_. It is said to have been buried at a depth of 8
or 9 feet. B. S. Barton (Archæologia Amer., 1814, pp. 22–23) stated that
he had examined teeth of both mastodon and elephant from this swamp.
George Turner (Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. IV, 1899, p. 511) speaks
of the discovery of bones of what is called the mammoth in the
construction of the Santee and Cooper River Canal. Cuvier (Oss. Foss.,
ed. 4, vol. II, p. 275) stated that the naturalist M. Bose had witnessed
the exhumation of 5 molars of mastodon during the excavation of the
“canal de Caroline,” 15 miles from Charleston. They were found in pure
sand at a depth of 3 feet. It is possible that there is here an error in
the distance from Charleston.
4. _Lee County._—Tuomey (Rep. Geol. Surv. South Carolina, 1848, p. 178)
states that between Lynch’s Creek and Black River, “near Concord
church,” he found a bed of Pliocene marl about 4 feet thick, which, like
the Darlington deposit, rests on black shale. In an excavation made in
this marl, he found a portion of a tusk of a mastodon. This might,
indeed, have belonged to an elephant, but more probably to _Mammut
americanum_.
5. _Darlington County._—In 1848 (Rep. Geol. Surv. South Carolina, 1848,
pp. 177–180), Tuomey reported that 2 perfect molars of _Mastodon
maximus_ (=_Mammut americanum_) had been found on land of G. W. Dargan,
somewhere near Darlington. They were found in a swamp and covered with 3
or 4 feet of mud, but lying in a marl which he regarded as belonging to
the Pliocene. One was sent to the college at Columbia. In a note to the
geologist J. W. Foster (Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. X, 1856, p.
167), Tuomey stated that he had placed in the cabinet of South Carolina
College a fine tooth of mastodon, found in Darlington district. At an
earlier date Robert W. Gibbes (same Proceedings, vol. III, 1850, p. 67)
exhibited before the association teeth of a horse found at Darlington,
associated with bones of Mastodon.
GEORGIA.
(Map 5.)
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