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by Williamson) measured above six feet high at the 

 shoulder, and nearly a yard in breadth at the chest, 

 and the horns were above five feet and a half in 

 length. 



Major Smith mentions another killed to the east- 

 ward of Bengal, whose head, when resting perpen- 

 dicularly on the grounu, required the out- stretched 

 arms of a man to hold the points of the horns. Ano- 

 ther pair of horns in the British Museum, measured 

 by the same author, were six feet three inches in 

 length, following the curve, and eighteen inches in 

 circumference at the base. 



