 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...shot on Lewis and Clarke's expedition, which weighed between five and six hundred pounds at least, and measured eight feet seven inches and a half from...extremity of the hind feet ; five feet ten inches round the breast ; three feet eleven inches round the neck ; one foot eleven inches round the middle... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...wounds. He is stated 1x» have ' weighed between five and six hundred pounds at the ' least, and to have measured eight feet seven inches and a half ' from...neck, one foot eleven inches round the middle of 'the fore leg; and his talons, five on each foot, were four ' inches and three eighths in length.' Much... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1816 - 678 pages
...wounds. He is stated to have ' weighed between five and six hundred pounds at the ' least, and to have measured eight feet seven inches and a half ' from...inches and a half round the breast, three feet eleven inchc* ' round the neck, one foot eleven inches round the middle of ' the fore leg ; and his talons,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...survived twenty minutes. He weighed between five and six hundred pounds at least, and measured eight leet seven inches and a half from the nose to the extremity...three feet eleven inches round the neck, one foot eleveh inches round the middle of the fore-leg, and his talons, five on each foot, were four inches... | |
 | 1827 - 624 pages
...wounds ; notwithstanding which, he swam more than half across a river to a sand-bar, and survived mope than twenty minutes. He weighed between five and six...and a half, from» the nose to the extremity of the hind-feet ; five feet, ten inches, and a half, round the breast ; three feet, eleven inches, round... | |
 | 1838 - 866 pages
...specimen killed by Lewis and Clark and their party on the banks of the Missouri, measured eight 1'eet seven inches and a half from the nose to the extremity of the hind legs when extended. The length from the nose to the tail, which is the usual measurement of an animal,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1843 - 400 pages
...to a sand-bar, and survived twenty minutes. He weighed between five and six hundred pounds at least, and measured eight feet seven inches and a half from...neck, one foot eleven inches round the middle of the fore leg, and his claws, five on each foot, were four inches and three eighths in length. This animal... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1847 - 398 pages
...to a sand-bar, and survived twenty minutes. He weighed between five and six hundred pounds at least, and measured eight feet seven inches and a half from...neck, one foot eleven inches round the middle of the fore leg, and his claws, five on each foot, were four inches and three eighths in length. This animal... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 372 pages
...sand-bar, and survived more than twenty minutes. 9. This bear weighed five or six hundred pounds, at least, and measured eight feet seven inches and a half, from...of the hind feet ; five feet ten inches and a half around the breast, and his claws were four inches and three eighths in length. GRAMMAR SCHOOL EEADER.... | |
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... five balls passed through his lungs, and five other wounds, he swam more than half across the river to a sand-bar, and survived twenty minutes. He weighed between five and six hundred pounds at least, and measured eight feet seven inches and a half... 
