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is flattened. Besides the anterior head, it has, 4 metres behind, 
two small but completely formed heads (?) rising from the back. 
All three have much resemblance to the head of a dog. The 
legs are short, and end in formidable claws. The legs, 
belly, and lower part of the throat appear defended by a 
kind of scale armour, and all the back is protected by a still 
thicker and double cuirass, starting from behind the ears of the 
anterior head, and continuing to the tail. The neck is long, and 
the belly large and almost dragging on the ground. Professor 
Gilveti, who examined the beast, thinks it is not a monster, but 
a member of a rare or almost lost species, as the Indians in some 
parts of Bolivia use small earthen vases of identical shape, and 
probably copied from Nature.” 
If this account should prove to be accurate it would form a 
counterpart to the etching of the mammoth which forms so inte- 
resting a memorial of pre-historic art. — I am, &c., 
William E. A. Axon. 
Fern Bank, Higher Broughton, Manchester. 
