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°

by Oliver Perry Hay

NORTH CAROLINA.

(Maps [23], [39].)

1. On Neuse River, Pamlico County, 16 miles below Newbern.—On page [117], in discussing the occurrence of mastodons at this place, it is stated that H. B. Croom had reported also the presence of elk remains. A more competent witness was Richard Harlan, who included the elk in his list of species (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XLIII, 1842, p. 143). The reader is referred to page 358, where the locality and the species are further considered.