Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — A Pretty Large Tooth. [ARTICLE]

A Pretty Large Tooth.

John Aligns is making on oxcovation in Bridgeport, and when down übout seven feet below the surface Ids workmen came upon a huge tooth, in a tine stoto of preservation. The tooth was as perfect as one just taken from the human jaw. Professor T. C. Alderson of Englewood, Mr. H. H. liindshaw, and Mr. Charles Babcock, gentlemen recognized in scientific circles, examined the tooth and they pronounced it the inoiar of a young mustodon. It was found to measure fourteen indies around the collar, and was four and one-half inches across the greatest diameter. It Ims six cusps, or grinding points, three perfect and showing wear, the other three crowns being slightly fractured; though all still have a coat of enamel bright us porcelain, nearly one-quarter of an inch thick, of u bluish tint* and fur more dense than human tooth enamel. The neck of the tooth is also perfect, but the root terminals at their extreme points lmvo been broken off, showing the nerve canal, as large as a carpenter’s pencil. The tooth must have been about sevon inches in length.—[Chicago Inter-Ocean.