Excerpt from A Preliminary Report on the Paleontology of Perry County, Describing the Order and Thickness of Its Formations, 1888, Vol. 1 Mr. A. E. Lehman, geologist and topographer, ' South Mountain Survey. Mr. E. B. Harden, topographer, 905 Walnut street, Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"Investigation of Perry County, Missouri caves began in 1960. These caves occur in a karst area of the county and during the past many thousand years have collected and preserved the bones of animals. Bones and teeth from Pleistocene mammoth, horses, camel, Bison, deer; two species of peccary (tentative identification), and a turtle have been found"--Abstract.