[5] Owen On the Mylodon.
[6] Perhaps the most complete and the most magnificent skeleton of this animal ever discovered, was exhumed in 1849 at Killowen, in Co. Wexford. It was buried only four feet below the surface, between the vegetable mould and plastic clay. The roots of the black willow and German rush had entwined themselves round the bones, and some seeds, ascertained to be those of the wild cabbage, were found in the same bed. The dimensions of the skeleton were as follows:—Height, 12½ feet to the tips of the horns, 7 feet to the top of the pelvis; expanse of horns 11 feet in a chord, or 13 feet 6 inches along the curve; palm of the antlers 2 feet 7 inches long by 1 foot 5 inches broad, some of the snags 2 feet 6 inches long; the face 1 foot 10½ inches in length.
[7] Annals of Nat. Hist. xv.
[8] Hist. Animals, xvi. 17.
[9] Nat. Hist. ix. 10.
[10] On the Mammoth or Fossil Elephant, &c. London, 1819.
[11] Testimony of the Rocks, p. 97.
[12] See vol. i. p. 361, supra.
[13] Latrobe's Mexico, p. 192.
[14] Nat. Voyage, ch. v.