WAS MAN A CONTEMPORARY OF THE MAMMOTH? 
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Later in the pamphlet he goes on with his conclusions, and 
says : 44 After having examined this subject in all its bearings, 
I have come to the conclusion that the leviathan — described in 
the 41st Chapter of the Book of Job — is none other than the 
Missourium here described, and from this time I shall call it the 
Missouri Leviathan (. Leviathan Missourii ).” 
Next follows a comparison with the account of Job, taking 
up the several verses in order. On the first, 64 Canst thou draw 
out Leviathan with a hook ? ” he says : 44 The Missourium, as I 
have described, was a creature of enormous magnitude, ferocity, 
and strength, as well as fleetness in swimming : and by reason 
of his great weight and strength could attack the largest ani- 
mals with impunity and overcome them with ease ; nor is it 
probable that any combination of human force was able to draw 
him out of his native element.” The sentence 44 Who can come 
to him with his double bridle ?” has the following exposition : 
44 The tusks coming out of the head until they arrive at a 
parallel with the nose, then turning suddenly back and forming 
a semicircle round the head (like a shield to prevent anything 
from approaching it), and measuring from point to point in 
a straight line over the head 15 feet ; it can be seen at once 
how utterly futiler would be any attempt to cast a bridle over 
him.” 
Dr. Koch closes this exposition and his pamphlet with a para- 
graph explaining how the 44 Leviathan, which is described as 
being an inhabitant of Asia, came to be found in the extreme 
west of the globe.” 
The Dublin pamphlet of 1843 shows some gain in knowledge ; 
but the author still holds that the Missourium was not solely 
herbivorous ; that its tusks curved outwards horizontally ; that 
it 44 waded frequently at the bottoms of the former gigantic 
rivers and lakes of the west ; ” that 44 the ribs resembled more 
those of the Reptilia than those of the quadrupeds, being situ- 
ated half reversed in the body [Dr. Koch’s misplacement of 
them] ; that is, the lower edge of the rib bends in towards the 
intestines, and the upper edge out towards the skin ” (as stated 
also in the pamphlet of 1840) ; and he ends with the same 
detailed 44 comparison of the Leviathan with the Missourium,” 
and the same explanation of how such an Asiatic inhabitant 
came to be found 44 in the extreme west of the globe.” 
Now this web-footed aquatic animal, capable of feeding him- 
self with his forefoot, was no other than the American Masto- 
don whose forefeet were as good for putting food into its 
mouth, or picking its teeth, as any elephant’s. The specimen 
taken to England, in 1841, as the Missourium, and which Pro- 
fessor Owen says was 44 well-known to the public as the Missouri 
Leviathan , when exhibited with a most grotesquely distorted 
