Thus the whole length of the animal, when alive, must have been little less than 18 feet, and the circumference of his body, where thickest, about six feet.

His teeth were of various sizes, irregularly placed in the jaw, but the largest not bearing the same proportion to the size of the animal that the tusks of wild beasts bear to their magnitude. This we should be scarcely disposed to account a proof of small age, since in every other light there was nothing but the amplest evidence of majority. In the lower jaw we counted 25 or 26 teeth, most of them inconsiderable in size.

At the joining of the head with the body, there appeared to be a large scale, forming part of the animal's armour, from which four bony protuberances were elevated, and on the back between the four legs commenced three rows of such protuberances extending on each side along the body. Outside of these, there was an incomplete row on each side stretching only about one third of the distance between the fore and hinder legs. Four of the serrated ridges, thus produced, extended along the tail to the length of 54 feet, all converging,but the teeth of the two outermost increasing in size, while those of the inner ones diminished so as to disappear at the junction of the former ones. The shape of this part of the tail was more verticillate than otherwise; and the remainder to the extremity ensiform, the upper edge being serrated in continuation of the preceding ridges, and having the bony protuberances of increased size.

The legs were of considerable thickness compared with their length, and furnished each with a webbed foot, the toes of which were provided with claws of very formidable appearance. We measured the claws of the hinder ones, which exceeded two inches in length, and were more than half of that in diameter at the root.

These, however, corresponding with the length and thickness of the legs themselves, were much larger than the fore ones.

Our readers may possibly fancy to themselves the sensations excited by beholding an animal of such dimensions-as long as three men of more than the usual stature

shielded from common accident or attacks by such defensive armour, with a tail of such magnitude which nature had no doubt intended as well for offence as for assisting his movements, with jaws that might have been a forceps for Vulcan, with strength equal to what the ancients may have attributed to that celestial maker, and originally endowed with ferocious propensities to use his strength and weapons to the destruction of every living creature that he could reach. Altogether, the sight was one of terrific novelty, and the contents of his belly were of a description sufficiently calculated to heighten the feelings excited by his external appearance. On opening him, amidst a quantity of bones were found the bangles that had belonged to some hapless Mussulman boy, and the bangles also of a Hindoo woman. Το these exuvie was added a more receut capture, which still retained its proportions entire, viz. a goat. The amount of his spoils affords a melancholy confirmation of the dangers to which the natives are said to be exposed in their river ablutions, and of the frequency with which they become victims to the attacks of these woist of river-pirates.

An agreeable and valuable periodical publication has lately been commenced in India, entitled the Calcutta Magazine. We are indebted to it for the Ode to Gunga, and that to a Nautch-girl, in our preceding number, and for some articles in our present, and promise ourselves further acquisitions from the same respectable source.

A work is announced in Paris, by M. Abel Remusat, M. D. entitled, Recherches sur les Langues Tartariennes, &c. Researches on the Tartarian Languages; or, Essays on the different points of the Grammar, and the Literature of the Mantchoos, the Mongols, the Cighurs, and the Tibetians; with an Appendix, containing a great number of Chinese and Tartarian sentences, vocabularies and alphabets, extracted from oriental books. The following is extracted from the Prospectus:-" Since learned men have felt the importance of the materials which the Chinese writers might furnish for the history of Asia, Tartary, till then covered with a thick veil, has begun to be better known. Visdelou and De Guignes first sketched out a description of the revolutions which have occurred in those uncultivated countries. But their works, very little read in our days, are exclusively consecrated to a recital of political and military events: nothing is found there on the manners, the religions, the languages, and the literature of the Tartars. These subjects are however more interesting

than the uniform narrations and monotonous descriptions of sieges and battles, whose repetition becomes fatiguing, and whose perusal is always sterile. The critical history of languages in particular, beside the advantage of offering new points of comparison for the analytical study of the operations of the human understanding-have those of supplying the deficiency of historical documents when these are wanting-of enabling us to mount higher than the most ancient traditions, and showing us the origin and descent of nations. But great precautions should be used in employing a method which is so liable to abuse. It must not be limited to an accumulation of vocabularies, or a comparison of catalogues of words-it is necessary to penetrate into the interior stricture of languages, to examine their grammatical rules, their phraseology, and their peculiar etymological principles. Deriving information from compilers must be particularly avoided. All the attention must be directed to ori

ginal monuments, if the arrival at positive conclusions, and marching with a firm step in this thorny path, are desired. The neglect of these precautions, commanded by sound criticism, is the true cause of the imperfection of the notions hitherto entertained of the languages of Tartary, although they were never so necessary; as the idioms to be examined were but little extended, and historical inferences were to be deduced from their examination. In the midst of profound obscurity, the spirit of system has been more than ouce substituted for an exact knowledge of facts and theories more or less ingenious have occupied the places of exact ideas-which it had been too difficult to collect from the Chinese historians or the small number of Tartaric monuments which have descended to us. The principal object of the work we propose is to give more just ideas of the ancient and modern state of the nations of Tartary; in making known, by the comparison of their idioms, the coincidences and differences which exist among them. Admitting the fundamental division of the Tartars, as fixed by many authors, into four principal races, very distinct from each other, and from the other Asiatic nations; by examining the languages, the truth of this division, and the approximations that result from it, among people of the same race, is proved. The history of the different systems of writing which have been current among the Tartars is given in detail the origin of those systems is investigated, and the monuments which present their traces are examined. This part of the work, almost exclusively compiled from Chinese authors, solves many important historical questions on the origin attributed by some moderns to the

alphabets, the languages, and the doctrines of the inhabitants of Southern Asia. In a peculiar chapter, devoted to the lan guage of each of the four races of Tartars, the principles on which it is constructed are examined-the source of the dialects derived from it are ascended to -an idea of its grammar-its orthography and its etymological processes is given, all the facts relating to its literary history, scattered in the Chinese and national authors, are collected-and, in conclusion, each idiom is exemplified by a vocabulary and texts of some extent, accompanied by a faithful version, a grammatical analysis, and historical and literary notes. That this kind of Chrestomathy, in which the first authentic specimens of many languages of Central Asia are found--may not be destitute of utility in itself, the author has been careful to select those writings which possess some historical or philosophical interest. Thus, the text which serves for a specimen of the Mantshoo language is one of the books of the sect of Boodha, translated originally from the Sanskrit, and the notes accompanying it, compiled from the Chinese, convey many points of the doctrine of that celebrated sect. The Mongol, Oighar, Elut, and Tibetian texts have been chosen as much as possible from those which have some connection with the general object of these research. es, the process used in publishing permitting a close adherence to the kind of caligraphy in use among these different people; and on this account also their collection may be interesting to philologists and useful to the lovers of the oriental languages. By discussing the majority of the literary questions which may arise relative to the Tartars, a just and precise idea of the degree of influence their southern neighbours, the Chinese and the Hindoos, have had on their cultivation may be formed-and of that which the Boodhist, Christian, and Mahometan missionaries have exercised on their faith, their manners, and their political and religious constitution. By this means all the chimeras which systematical writers have accumulated relative to the Calmucks, Oighurs, and Tshutes, of whom they have successively made the primitive people-the nation by excellence-those from whom all the others have received their arts-their religions and their civilization-will vanish, never to return. That strange system, which could only obtain currency in an age when every thing appearing to invalidate the testimony of the Holy Scriptures was favourably received, is entirely destroyed by a deep and attentive examination of facts, and this is an important result of M. Abel Remusat's work. The text of these researches will form a 4to. volume, English letter (caractère SaintAugustin), on large paper (papier carré),

about 400 pages, printed at the Royal Printing Oilice, with the requisite Chinese and Tartaric characters. The Appendix of about 100 pages, containing the texts of any length, will be printed by the Lithographic process recently introduced into France by the Count de Lasteyrie.

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