The Arkansas banner., 1844-04-03

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 BEHOLD BEHEMoTH!s
 The following letter was received too h, sertion in our last paper. We cheerlulv place this week. We have not the uls,. personal acquaintance with the writer. bSt doubt or its authenticity and truth. Theo, mains it describes are truly wonderful in exceeding any Of which we have ever se count. Our knowledge of compmaiice ot not sufficient to enable IS to determineth,s geological relations. If, however, the wrts rate in his description of the teeth, we as warranted in s1pposing them to have bea carnivorous animal; although such SUI greatly augments the wonder with which template the enormous size of the animal
 In view ofaI the circumstances, we wod to MT. A. the propriety of bringing or sends city, a portion of the bones-particulaS e 7! ofthe classes of teeth, he describes. Anezs of these would enable Naturalist to deter character and habitudes of the animal VI them.
 This we hope Mr. A. will do, as we ela lessor DRAKE, of Louisville, to be here, a during the Spring, fprobably early in Nj / tour of scientific observation; and it woul flying to him, and valuable tonatural sciels these interesting specimens submitted tohs | enad inspection. We would be pleased b ther from Mr. \. on this subject, at his cal venience
 It may be well to remark that {" Mount the residence Of Mf. 4. and the locality q 1 coyery, is in Randolph county, in the nort of the State, near the Missouri line.
 For He .4rkaasas Baaag
 GREAT BONES.
 DR. BoRLAND.-A few days sine very great and striking curiosity. | sists of the bones of an animal wh| size and kind, must have been ont most remarkable ever in existence. the principal. bones are partially deco yet enough remains, ill a sound stais dicate much of the nature of the ania excite feelings of wonder in the mlni beholder. These bones were dug Il bowels of the earth, at distance of feet below the surface. Before these remains, a stratum of almost trable cement, which had formed ova had to be passed through; but, afteri sage had been effected, the excaylt come quite easy. The following is 4 description of these bones, as am furnish, from actual observation
 The incisor or cutting teeth are ab inches wide, and fourteen inches la hibiting, in their situation and chanf animal of the earnivorous kind. n pidai, or dog teeth, afford addlhd| dence of this fact; standing, in lenga inches clear of the jaw ; but ther insertion into the socket, l could no tain. The anterior and posterior mo grinding teeth, are huge masses O measuring t1rclre by eighteen incAesaa crown surface; being inserted into bone, something like the human, and secured in their sockets, by irregula tions of their fangs in various dred] The sockets of these teeth are large to hold hat of the largest size; | teeth themselves vary in weight, from to eighteen pounds end three quarttrs was enough of the superior and mlen] Hilary bones for the alveoli of the ? molar teeth, the remainder of thos] being gone; but the two pieces, lhpl being sufficient to accommodate oal of the principal teeth, and measunaE] mine inches, indicate the whole leagg'n been very great; and when the o'l was placed upon the other, in lnel position, the mass of jaw bone, thus measured forty nine inches in dePl.| ai. .Scapuza, or shoulder blade is sir fsaa!! and eight feet ia length; forming, m sent condition, something like m. The supposition may be safely veala.l it is now much reduced from it's orlSp1 by the waste and decomposition ! a undergoing for ages past. Among of the head was found tusk ol
 size and weight; measuring tareng | ches at its larger extremity, eig@a length, ana weighing near Ms pounds. The situation, ill the s'lsl the animal, of this immense tusR, I cannot determine. When the O0y first discovered, this great tusk was ly sound but by exposure to the aal it has lost much weight, and su'sg T| presents a great many cavities
 or head of he higit bone IS as,v sa,i| large; and the distance from the @ animal to the bed or socket oi .np tho thigh bone, shows the propaOss, he animal 10 hare been FORTY a's s.s The ribs were in decomposeu not so intirely destroyed as to Pls's hs, servation, and some estimate ol lllS' a'ta appearance, ill their bed of earth to have fallen away from llle ? measure about seven feet betwes%,
 These are all the bones founa p vation, which were whole; l504i ss fragments were faund scattered monsters 2 ave bat they were y A, ) cayed that 1t was impossible v