DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.70303#0036
SKEtETOW OF THE MAMMOTH.
But notwithstanding all this exercise of wit and humour
upon the credulity of the times, it seems, a Foreigner stiff
thought there was some room left for a further trial; he
therefore published the following advertisement very soon
after, and which we insert, that nothing might be wanting
to shew the extent of some people’s efforts, then to'avail
themselves of the general disposition of the day.
7a 6e seen., at Mr.LiAm’s, the Old Horse-shoe, in Wood-street?Chea.pside,fro’m'
Nine; till Twelve, and from Four to Seven o’ Clock, lately brought from. France,
A full-grown Mouse alive, confined in a small two-ounce
Phial, the neck of which is not a quarter of an inch dia-
meter. This amazing- Creature hath lived in the Phial three
Years and a half without drink, or any sustenance, but
.bread only. It cleans out its little habitation, and hath
many other pretty actions, as surprising as. agreeable; but
particularly creates wonderful diversion with a Fly, and is<
allowed to be an extraordinary curiosity, never before seen,
in England,; at the expence of 6d. each Person.
Note, Gentlemen or Ladies, who don’t chuse to come, it
shall be carried to them, by sending a line’ to Mr, Leader,
N Skeleton of the Mammoth, found in Esser,
October 1803,
By the falling down of a piece of the cliff, on Walton
shore, near Harwich, the skeleton of an enormous animal
was discovered, measuring nearly 30 feet in length.—Some
of the bones were nearly as large as a man’s body, and six
or seven feet Iona-; the cavities which contained the mar-
■ & .
row, were large enough to admit the introduction of a
man’s arm ; the bones, on being handled, broke to pieces.
One of the molar'teeth was carried to Colchester, by Mr.
W. Jackson, who took it from the spot, in whose posses-
sion it now is; it weighs seven pounds, is of a square
form, and grinding surface is studded with several zig-zag
rows of laminte> which seems to. denote that it belonged to
a caiy.
But notwithstanding all this exercise of wit and humour
upon the credulity of the times, it seems, a Foreigner stiff
thought there was some room left for a further trial; he
therefore published the following advertisement very soon
after, and which we insert, that nothing might be wanting
to shew the extent of some people’s efforts, then to'avail
themselves of the general disposition of the day.
7a 6e seen., at Mr.LiAm’s, the Old Horse-shoe, in Wood-street?Chea.pside,fro’m'
Nine; till Twelve, and from Four to Seven o’ Clock, lately brought from. France,
A full-grown Mouse alive, confined in a small two-ounce
Phial, the neck of which is not a quarter of an inch dia-
meter. This amazing- Creature hath lived in the Phial three
Years and a half without drink, or any sustenance, but
.bread only. It cleans out its little habitation, and hath
many other pretty actions, as surprising as. agreeable; but
particularly creates wonderful diversion with a Fly, and is<
allowed to be an extraordinary curiosity, never before seen,
in England,; at the expence of 6d. each Person.
Note, Gentlemen or Ladies, who don’t chuse to come, it
shall be carried to them, by sending a line’ to Mr, Leader,
N Skeleton of the Mammoth, found in Esser,
October 1803,
By the falling down of a piece of the cliff, on Walton
shore, near Harwich, the skeleton of an enormous animal
was discovered, measuring nearly 30 feet in length.—Some
of the bones were nearly as large as a man’s body, and six
or seven feet Iona-; the cavities which contained the mar-
■ & .
row, were large enough to admit the introduction of a
man’s arm ; the bones, on being handled, broke to pieces.
One of the molar'teeth was carried to Colchester, by Mr.
W. Jackson, who took it from the spot, in whose posses-
sion it now is; it weighs seven pounds, is of a square
form, and grinding surface is studded with several zig-zag
rows of laminte> which seems to. denote that it belonged to
a caiy.