"Megaceros" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... three or four, and sometimes six feet,— which would make him in all, sometimes, eleven feet high! According to this calculation, the moose is as tall, though it may not be as large, as the great Irish elk, Megaceros Hibernicus, of a former period, of which Mantell says that it "very far exceeded in magnitude any living species, the skeleton" being "upward of ten feet high from the ground to the highest point of the antlers." ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858 • Various |
