OCR Text |
Show VA Verano, August 1 9th. 1U-iort 1U-iort comes from Shellville, about four miles from here, that tlie shovel of a dredger which Is clean-logout clean-logout Kmbircadero creek struck a hard substance yesterday, which, when unearthed, proved to be the skeleton of what must have been a monstrous amphibious animal. From the cranium to tbe Up of tlie tall tbe sxelloa measured twelve feet, and the massive jawbones were four feet iu length. Ihc forelegs fore-legs were five fett In length, while the bones of the rear legs were but eighteen inches long, and were without joints, except at the hlra. The toes weie five Inches in length. There were two strong tusks of bone projecting from Uie upper Jaw at right angles with, the head, aud from tbe top of the skull grew two bonu, each having three branches. They losktd like small antlers. The skeleton was found at the depth of twenty feet from the surface of tbe ground, Imbedded iu a stratum of clay. The bones were taken out separately, Itlnlng Impossible to preserve tho skeleton whole. The discovery was made iu tbe midst of a vast tract of tale about two miles north cf tb headwaters cf San Pabb Bay. |