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1. Seneca Lake.—In 1858 (Geol. Surv. North Carolina, East. Counties, p. 200), Emmons stated that a tooth belonging to the elephant had been taken from the beach of Seneca Lake. When this happened, exactly where, and what was done with the tooth, the present writer does not know.
2. Wellsburg, Chemung County.—In 1793 (Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, Sci., vol. II, pt. 1, p. 164), Timothy Edwards reported a horn or bone of some animal had been found in Chemung, or Tyoga, River, about 12 miles from Tyoga Point. Mr. F. W. Ashley, of the Library of Congress, informed the writer that Tyoga Point was a former name of the present town of Athens, Pennsylvania. Whether the tusk was really found in Pennsylvania or in New York is uncertain, nor is it any more certain that the tusk was that of an elephant and not of a mastodon. The fragment was 6 feet 9 inches long, with a circumference of 21 inches at the base and 15 inches at the other extremity. It was estimated to have formed an arc 10 or 12 feet long of a semicircle.
Mather, in 1843 (Geol. 4th Dist., pp. 233, 636), stated that bones of both the mastodon and the elephant had been found in Orange County. On page 44 of the same volume he stated that bones supposed to belong to an elephant had been found 2 miles west of Greenville, in Greene County. Hall regarded them as belonging to a mastodon. The case is doubtful.