"Here is the lower jaw of a mastodon," [1] I said. "These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the greatest of those beasts, the megatherium.
—He aquí —dije— la mandíbula inferior de un mastodonte; he aquí los molares de un dineterio; he aquí un fémur que no puede haber pertenecido sino al mayor de estos animales: al megaterio.