Susquehanna County, Gigantic Skeleton

To the Cor. See. of the Pennsylvania
Lyceum.
John Fcrct. who resides about a mile
from this riliagc, in digging a well lately,
about fifteen feet below- the surface of the
earth, came across a skeleton of prodigious
size. Dr. Sturges and Dr. Patterson
both pronuuueed it a human skeleton of
gigantic proportions, and nrccs’sarily of a
genius long since cxtinct.tond corroponding
with the mastadon or mammoth in
the brute order. The thigh bone is two
feet and three inches in length, and the
skull is frightful. One of the teeth, ft
grimier, is enormous, and is in a perfect
state of preservation. It is as large as
the cork fa porter bottle, w ith two prongs
and indented exactly like a hunan tooth.
The workmen have not yet completed the
cxltactiuu of all the hones, and great cxritrmrnt
prevail*. Too medical men from
New V<>rk have ?<ficrcd the owner of the
firm 100 dollars for the skeleton, which
our doclCis have advired him to refuse.
*Su}quahanna JRfg.

Susquehanna County, Gigantic Skeleton

The Camden journal. volume, July 23, 1836, Image 3