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.35