They were mostly from twelve to eighteen inches in length and from eight to fourteen inches in diameter, measuring in all more than fifteen feet in length.
Of the tail and neck but few vertebrae were found, but there were many fragments of the ribs and of the leg-bones.

All the vertebrae were discovered in a continuous line, nearly joined together.

The head, to correspond with other parts of the animal, must have been twelve or fourteen feet long, which would have given to the monster the almost incredible length of eighty feet.
The Prince Seravalle, while digging, in the fall of the year 1834, for an ammunition store on the western banks of the Buona Ventura, picked up a beautiful curved ivory tusk, three feet long, which, had it not been for its jet black colour, would have been amazingly alike to that of a large elephant.
Some pieces of it (for unhappily it was sawn into several parts) are now in the possession of the governor of Monterey and Mr.Lagrange, a Canadian trader, who visited the territory in 1840.] "One summer, and it was a dreadful one, the moon (_i.e._ the sun) remained stationary for a long time; it was of a red blood colour, and gave neither night nor days.

Takwantona, the spirit of evil, had conquered Nature, and the sages of the Shoshones foresaw many dire calamities.

The great _Medecines_ declared that the country would soon be drowned in the blood of their nation.