The Mastodon

     The fact that the remains of many Mastodons have
been found in Ohio, leads us to the opinion that Perry
county must have known about these immense moun-
tains of flesh. After the Ice Age, a dense growth of
vegetation sprang up. The Mastodon being herbiv-
brous would naturally seek for places where food
was abundant. Northern Perry would be of especial
value to him. The land was swampy; the vegetation
was of quick growth, thus making it toothsome. It is
in such places that the remains have been found.
     We may be sure that one of his kind once browsed
in Thorn township, near the Big Swamp. Parts of
his skeleton have been found along Jonathan's Creek.
Eleven of his teeth, weighing from ten to seventeen
pounds each, adorn the private museums of their find-
ers. A part of a rib, measuring about forty inches has
been picked up in the alluvial plain of the Moxahala.
As the stream changes its course, other parts of the
frame of this ancient Perry county citizen may be
unearthed.
     Since the above was written, the author has learned
that the tooth of one of these mammoth creatures was
picked up in the neighborhood of Chapel Hill.

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