WE LARGEST SKELETON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2486, 16 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

WE LARGEST SKELETON.

A despatch from Cisco, Texas, to the New York Herald of recent date says that the largest skeleton ever heard of has been discovered in Eastland country, and it is being exhumed. A. O. Mcßoane, an Eastland country farmer and a highly resspected gentleman, came into town and brought two petrified teeth and portions of the skull of a skeleton that was discovered by Archie Brown. The teeth, which Mr Mcßoane placed on exhibition, weigh eight and sixteen pounds respectively, the lighter one being partly decayed. Mr Mcßoane told of the discovery as follows:— Archie Brown was travelling through the woods, near a creek, when he discovered a horn sticking out of the side of the bank. He tried to pull it out but could not, and commenced digging, and finally reachod the head of the animal and found the horn to be six feet long and twelve inches in diameter two feet from the head. He got assistance and exhumed the other horn, the head, some of the ribs and the left foreleg of the animal, which was seven feet under hard clay. Its under jawbones measure 1\ feet across, and 3 feet long. The head, from top to tip of nose, is 5 feet, and is 3 feet between the eyes. Its left foreleg bone from the knee joint to the shoulder blade joint is 5 feet, and measures 8 inches in diameter at the knee joint. The other part of the leg , crumbled, so it could not be measured. The remaining part of the skeleton had not been unearthed. Some suggest that it is the skeleton of a mastodon, and lived during the carboniferous age; but its size and shape do not bear out that idea. Its horns aud head resemble a goat's.