Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A recent writer in the Field newspaper gives the dimensions of an old Indian elephant, which would scarcely have been much inferior in size to a mastadon. According to his account the animal measured 11 and three-quarters feet in height at the shoulders, 25 feet 5 inches from the tip of the trunk to the end of the tail. The distance from the tip of the trunk to one eye was 7 feet; from one eye to the tail nearly 13 and one-half feet, and the tail was 4 and one-half feet in length. The tusks were 5 feet 2 inches long.-Harper’s Monthly Magazine.