 | William John Burchell - 1824 - 690 str.
...the longest, and measuring five inches. The fresh skin, when spread out upon the ground, measured, from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, seven feet and seven inches ; across the middle of the body, four feet ; in extent between the ends... | |
 | John Hart - 1825 - 48 str.
...teeth ; B the molares are not much worn down, and are tWentjrfpur in number. The skeleton measures, from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, ten feet ten inches. The spine consists of twenty-six vertebrae, viz. seven cervical, thirteen dorsal,... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1827 - 608 str.
...canine teeth ; the molares are not much worn down, and are twenty-four in number. The skeleton measures, from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, ten feet ten inches. The spine consists of twenty-six vertebras, viz. seven cervical, thirteen dorsal,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 str.
...morning, they shot in a tree, having hunted it nearly ten miles. It measured eleven feet tea inches from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail. In the autumn, I accompanied my master into the Indian country to purchase horses : an expedition which,... | |
 | 1850 - 538 str.
...formidable creature. Instances have been known where wild cats have attained to the length of five feet from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, even in this country. Its coat is very handsome, being elegantly striped after the form of that of... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1852 - 652 str.
...for the most part they are about a foot and a half in height, and about three feet three inches in length, from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, the latter being about one foot one inch long. In colour the Esquimaux dog varies, some being white,... | |
 | Charles Ball (Negro Slave.) - 1854 - 446 str.
...my master's house. It was shot by my master, with his rifle, and after it was dead, we measured it, from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, and found the whole length to be eleven feet and ten inches. In the fall of this year, I went with... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 432 str.
...seem to be any bounds to their growth. The old Berkshire breed appears to have been most famous fer their size. There is an account of one of these animals...ten hundredweight three quarters and eleven pounds. But even these gigantic proportions are exceeded by those of a hog whose stuffed skin is, or was, in... | |
 | 1858 - 140 str.
...formidable creature. Instances have been known where wild cats have attained to the length of five feet from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, even in this country. Its coat is very handsome, being elegantly striped after the form of that of... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1860 - 808 str.
...nearly 12 times as long as the body, considerably more than 120 feet. The average length of the wale from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail (the latter being about a foot) is 14 feet, but they have been known to measure 17 feet ; the females... | |
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The skeleton measures, from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, ten feet ten inches. 
