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Excerpt from Memoirs of Mammoth, and Various Other Extraordinary and Stupendous Bones, of Incognita, or Non-Descript Animals, Found in the Vicinity of the Ohio, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Osage, and Red Rivers, &C. &C: Published for the Information of Those Ladies and Gentlemen, Whose Taste and Love of Science Tempt Them to Visit the Liverpool Museum
Contains an object'of inexpressible gran deur and sublimity. It is the foot of a clawed animal, possibly of the order of fem, for the claws are sheathed and ortractile, in the manner of the cat, tiger, and lion. When this paw was dilated on its prey, filled with muscles, flexors, and cartilage, clothed with flesh, turg1d skin, and hair, it must have covered a space of ground four feet by three. The animal to whom it appertained, with su perior agility and ferocity to the tiger, with a body, too, of unequalled magni tude and strength, must have been the terror of the forest and of man. This monument stands alone. It has no com petitor. It is the first and only one of such exorbitant magnitude ever disco vered, or probably that ever will be.
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