CURIOUS FIND IN A SWAMP.
Mir Thin, a settler at Hannaton, the newsettlementnear-Studholme, showed us on Saturday a curio found on his section. He-was cutting up niggerheads in a swamp, with peat about two feet deep, and near the bottom of the peat, above the soil, he found a large tooth/ He would like to know what sort of animal it belonged to, and how it got where he found it.The tooth is a molar or grinder, sHghti^ewrped, and it measures along the curve 3^ inches. It was once longer, ; as part of the root end is broken off. The grinding face measures 1| by 1 inch, and the tooth weighs 2£ ounces. So far as our reading enables us to form an opinion we should say it is the tooth of a kind of whale, now extinct, which swam over South Canterbury when South Canterbury was mostly under the sea. But if that is so the whale did not leave it in the Hannaton Swamp. It must have been carried from one of the exposures of the marine beds by man, and was not unlikely lost in the Bwamp being used as amisaleby, gssibly, a moa hunter.— Timaru
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3069, 17 January 1894, Page 3
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