Discovery Of The Bones Of A Monster

A letter frota Argos, Marshall county, [nd. , says: On the farm of Mr. Alex. Bland, who liyes about flve miles epst of Argcs, has betn found a portion of the bonea of an animal which must have been, when living, at least twice the sizs of the elephant Rome. A part of the head, that whieh undoubtedly formad the ekull or crown, is over eighteen inches across, and about an inch thick. " he underside is set off in ooinpartments, and much resembles a Goodyear rubber door-mat. Trom the shape of one side, it appears that the eye must have been larger round than the crown of a man's hat. Thus far only three of the molar teeth have been found, which measure eight and a half inohes iu length each, thus making the entire length of the molar teeth alone forty-two and a half inohes, to say nothing about the eye-tooth and the nippers, of -which there are three. The teeth are in a state of almost perfect preservation, although one of them was broken by rough usage. Portions of the backbone show that the spine must have been six inches in diameter, white one of the ribs is four feet in length. A portion of what appears to be the shoulder-blade is two fet across and four feet long, and weighs about sixty pounds. Oi' fragmenta of bones there are about one hundred, among them some that have been recognized as those belonging to the mastodon. Two bones, one two feet and the other nine feet in length, which appear to bc-long to the same animal, were found close toget-her. Various theories have been ad vaneed as to what eau sed the bones of the two animáis, the mastodon and the monster (be it whatever it might have been), to be intermixed, the most plausible of which beiug that, as that part of the premises was íormerly a lake, the animáis then roaming the forest carne there to drink aud fouglit to the death, their heavy carcasses sinki ng into the quicksands that abound throughout this entire región.