A Curious Animal...
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May 22, 1845
MILWAUKIE DAILY SENTINEL, Milwaukie, Wisconsin, May 22, 1845
Page 2 of this issue features an article entitled: "A Curious Animal" which reads as follows: "A letter was read before the Geological Convention giving a description of a curious animal found in the Mammoth Ravine, as it is called, near Natchez, Miss, which is styled the "nondescript". Its head was eighteen inches long and eleven inches wide, there was a place for a trunk like that of an elephant; the tusks were eleven inches long; there were no traces of any eye-sockets; no formamina for the passage of an optic nerve, no place for eyes at all; it was a lbind animal..."
This issue, complete in 4 pages, is in good condition although some edge tears can be found along the seam.
Page 2 of this issue features an article entitled: "A Curious Animal" which reads as follows: "A letter was read before the Geological Convention giving a description of a curious animal found in the Mammoth Ravine, as it is called, near Natchez, Miss, which is styled the "nondescript". Its head was eighteen inches long and eleven inches wide, there was a place for a trunk like that of an elephant; the tusks were eleven inches long; there were no traces of any eye-sockets; no formamina for the passage of an optic nerve, no place for eyes at all; it was a lbind animal..."
This issue, complete in 4 pages, is in good condition although some edge tears can be found along the seam.
Category: Pre-Civil War
