lately found in Behring's Straits. 335 



" This mass of ice had imbedded in it a vast number of the tusks, 

 teeth, and bones of the mammoth, of which the objects we have described 

 were a part. Some parts of the ice near them had a smell of decayed 

 animal matter ; arising, no doubt, from the decomposition of the flesh. 

 The tusks are in their natural state ; but of two teeth, which accompanied 

 them, one seems to be petrified, having, doubtless, been in contact with 

 stone. The mammoth seems to have been an inhabitant of the whole 

 northern hemisphere ; its teeth and bones having been found on both 

 sides of North America, in Siberia, England, Scotland, and Italy, and 

 other parts of Europe. The remains found in Ayrshire and England 

 belong to a smaller species than these. The Edinburgh Museum is in- 

 debted for them to Lord Melville." — Globe Newspaper, Nov. 22, 1828. 



" Les rivages de la baie de Kotzebue, (N. lat. 66° 37', W. 

 Long, from Greenwich, 164° 42') ^taient composes de sable et de 

 cailloux; en d'autres endroits. Us etaient uniquement formes par des 

 masses de glace, dont une couche d'argile et de terre veg6tale, 

 6paisse d'un pied et demi et couverte de mousse, revetait les somraets. 

 La plage consistait en terreau noir, entraine d'en haut par la fonte des 

 glaces, et en couches de mousse et d'argile que la mSrae cause prc- 

 cipite sur les teirains bas ; ou, quand elles rencontrent des endroits 

 degarnis par les chaleurs, de I'et^, elles empSchent ensuite la glace de 

 fondre. Montes au sommet, nous creusames la terre ; partout on trouva 

 la glace quelquefois a moins d'un pied de profondeur ; elle etait solide et 

 pure, et avait, depuis sa base le long du rivage, pres de soixante pieds 

 de hauteur ; cette masse gelee se prolongeait dans Test jusqu'aux mon- 

 tagnes. On d^couvrit dans les tas de terre et de mousse sur la plage, 

 plusieurs defenses et une dent molaire de mammouth." — (^Voyage Pitto- 

 resque autour du Monde, par M. Louis Choris. Paris, 1822.) 



The above are considered by many to be the remains of 

 mammoths which existed before the creation of man: by 

 others they are supposed to have been drowned at the great 

 Deluge ; by some, these northern regions are imagined to have 

 been tropical countries, and Siberia, England, Sec. to have 

 been the native haunts of elephants, tigers, hippopotami, tapirs, 

 &c. The historical origin of such fossil remains in general 

 has been traced, and in nearly every instance with success. 

 The design of these remarks is to prove that those found in 

 Behring's Straits are the remains of those elephants which have 

 belonged to the Turks, Moguls, or Chinese, whose capitals and 



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