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SLOTHS.
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College of Surgeons, a monument of the talent
and skill of that eminent zoologist, who built it
up, bone by bone.
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SKELETON OF MYLODON
We can merely give the results of the Professor’s careful investigations. The Mylodon robustus was a Sloth having the size and proportions of a Rhinoceros, but with the limbs still more massive. The hind limbs, with the pelvis, and the tail are eminently colossal: and these were furnished with muscles, of immense power, and supplied with an extraordinary amount of nervous energy (indicated by the dimensions of the spinal tube).
