A Monster Alligator.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 154, 22 October 1872, Page 7

A Monster Alligator.

ha The Rockhampton' Bulletin observes:— "Tae public have not heard the last of Old eir Sen, the big alligator killed a week or two ago in 1 the the Upper Fitzrpv. Mr J. Wilson, who'di,mvered the reptile when in mortal agony, lat died at our office with a number of what he j eld called ‘relics’ of the alligator. These (anal's sisted of the forearm bone, which was about j Moat bug, and of great strength ; a number j the of pieces of petrified wood, lumps of stone, i 4c., making altogether, we are assured, one ad a-quarter hundredweight. Of the sped- i tied mens shown to us we weighed one stone, iiirs which, turned the scale at nineteen pounds fourteen ounces avoirdupois. Mr Wilson j cad assures ns that they were all found in the ade creature s paunch. We must take onr infer-1 the want’s words for this, but can vouch for the tra- ‘act that the stones were all water-worn, and will five out a most unsavoury odour. The exact the Measurement of the defunct alligator from e top of the nose to the point of flic tail ■art- "as twenty-two feet three and a-half inches ; it of ‘tns nine feet five inches in girth ; and its mds ail was eleven feet one inchin length. It M no tongue, heart, kidneys, or hlidder, j+A j ever > w ’hioh was five feet long, exdat tended on each side of the spine. It hid no nac- grinders, but a row of incisors both on the and lower jaw. The blacks held a jnca- pand corroboree, to mark the death of what una, ,ev regard as the formidable . enemy of ses- weir race, and tell appalling stories «>: J ravages among the women and children ske 1 heir tribe. He was, aver, formorl' r enizen of the Lower Fdzroy, but the tamers frightened him awav to the comparatively still waters of Alligator Creek. OjfP- . °