' Large ^higb Bone. 367 



is given by Muller. * This animal, he fays, is 

 four or five yards high, and about thirty feet 

 long. His colour is greyifh. His head is very 

 long, and his front very broad. On each fide, 

 precifcly under the eyes, there are two horns, 

 which he can move and crofs at pleafure. In 

 walking he has the power of extending and con- 

 trading his body to a great degree, l/brandes 

 Ides gives a fimilar account 5 but he is 'Candid 

 enough to acknowledge, that he never knew 

 any perfon who had fcen the Mannmouth alive. 

 Mr. Pennant, however, thinks it '' more than 

 *• probable, that it ftill exift:s in fome of thofe 

 " remote parts of the vaft new Continent, impe- 

 " netrated yet by Europeans. Providence," he 

 adds, " maintains and continues every created 

 ■** fpecies; and we have as much afTurance, that 

 ** no race of animals will any more ceafe while 

 ** the earth remaineth, x.\\2Ln feed time and harvejr, 

 *' cold and heati Jummer and winter^ day and night." 

 Several eminent naturaiifis of late years, as 

 Sir Hans Sloane, f Gmclin, \ Daubenton, and 

 BufFon, are of opinion that thefe prodigious 

 bones and tufks are really the bones and tufks 



• Moeurs & Ufages des Oftiaques dans le Recueil ties 

 Voyages au Nord. 



f Hiftoire de I'Acad. des Sciences Ann. 1717. p. i. 



X Relation d'un Voyage a Kamtfchatka par M. Gmelin 

 en 1735. — A Peterjhurgh-en iungue RuJJe. 



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