THE GREAT MISsOURIAN.
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The following extract of a letter is from gen.
tleman formerly of Baltimore, now on tour
through the western States, and at present in ST,
Louis from whence he writes


81 went the other night TO look at the greatest
curiosity that have ever seen. 1t is called the
GREAT MIssoURIAN. and is the skeleton of the
greatest animal ever known. 1t was found
about 200 miles west OF this place, (St. LOUIS
in this State, bya German, 1t measures TO the
top of the ribs, l6 feet high, is 80 feet long. has
two tusks that are from ten to twelve inches in
diameter, and are sixteen feet apart. The head
and tusks weigh 100 pounds. The joints ofIhe
knee. in the fore-legs, are inverted, so that he
bends his knee the contrary way from any other
animal. He appears 10 have been web:footed,
has no hoofs, but toes about eight or ten inches
long. The owner has computed its size, 10 CON-
parison to the size of an OK here that weighs
1000 pounds. and he is just ole hundred times
larger than the OK. so that he must have weighed
when alive. one hundred thousand pounds. (6fy
tsns.1 should think he would have required
five or SIX bufaloes for breakfast. The six mu-
sicians. who play at the exhibition the animal,
sit upon his ribs.


"The owner has been offered $4,000 cash
for him. He leaves in few days for New Or.
leans, from thence to New York, thence 10 Eu.
rope. 1t is worth good fortune to any six men
! but the owner will not sell it.'