The North Carolinian.

The Official Organ of the City.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1879.

Sometime ago we referred to a mammoth tooth found on Body's Island and forwarded by Lt. Walton to Prof. Marsh, Curator of the Geological Department of the Peabody Museum of Yale College, New Haven, Ct. By a letter received from the Professor we learn that the huge dental specimen was the tooth of a "Mastodon."

Query: How came the tooth on Body's Island? Not long ago we heard a rumor to the effect that the skeleton of an immense animal had been exhumed somewhere in Onslow county not far from the seashore. Would it not be profitable and in the interest of Science for the Professor to make a tour along the seaboard of the Old North State? We proffer him a hear-
ty welcome.

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