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• alluvial matters of a [?sclerous?] character with pebbles; in the neighbourhood much [?endenated?] land may be found & might be used for building. [?Scherfied?] oyster, ammonites & other shells have been met with.

  About two miles from Bastrop - "in a prairie was discovered the horns jaw-bone & teeth of some mammoth of which history gives no account.  The horn six & a half feet in length, nine inches in diameter; also part of a tooth, say one-third of it weighing sixteen or eighteen pounds."   

[newspaper clipping] "When you was in this place I had the satisfaction of shewing you some specimens of bones, which, I am told, are the largest that have as yet been discoved on the habitable globe. I have had a number of travellers, and some of them scientific gentlemen, who have called on me to see them; and they all agree that they exceed any thing in natural history, or of the present day - the large bone of Kentucky not excepted.

  "The bones which I have fortunately procured so far, are - the horns, jaw-bone and teeth of some mammoth, of which history gives no account.  The great Marstadon is said not to have horns;  but I have nearly a perfect horn, six and a half feet in length, nine inches in diameter, or twenty-seven inches in circumference; also, part of a tooth, say one-third of it, weighing about sixteen or eighteen pounds, and about one-third of the lower jaw or socket, of the same weight.
  "I still have hands employed in excavating the earth, and am in hopes of shewing that Texas, although young in the annals of history, can produce the largest bones that have yet been discovered.
  "These bones were discovered in the prairie, two miles below Bastorp, and within two hundred yards of the Colorado river."
  The foregoing are extracts from a letter of General Denyse which, together with a small fragment of one of the bones, has been handed to us by a friend.   We are informed that General Denyse has the bones at his residence at Bastrop, where any gentleman who is desirous may see them.  We hope they will no be permitted to leave this country, but that at some future day, they will be deposited in a national museum.