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kept battering away at him till he fell, 
^ole again to grapple with us, pierced with 
wounds. 
' fie proved to be a full-grown lion of the 
ow variety, about five or six years of age. 
ifteasured nearly twelve feet from the nose 
fke tip of the tail. His fore-leg, below the 
thick that I could not span it 
j. e both hands; and his neck, breast, and 
appeared, when the skin was taken off^ 
Complete congeries of sinews.” 
lion of Hindostan is scarcely less for- 
th • natives of that country than 
itself. An enormous animal of this 
•>I ^'^Pposed to be the largest ever seen 
ndia, was killed some years since near 
'^’’Haul. From the end of the nose to the 
bei Pleasured ten feet two inches; his 
the top of the shoulder, was four 
six inches ; and the circumference of the 
^6'leg two feet four inches. He had killed 
