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tioii has eflectually exterminated this reptile in otliers, and 

 not many years will suffice to render this once abundant 

 creature a curiosity in our state. A tAvelve-foot alligator is 

 already a curiosity, and tlie largest taken within the past 

 twenty years was killed in Bayou Lafourche in July, 1884. 

 It measured 14 feet inches. 



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