208 FAUJSA AMERICANA. 



enamel. 2d, In the more contracted form of tlie 

 inferior jaw, the symphysis of which is rounded, 

 in place of being pointed ; finally by the extreme 

 length of the alveoles for the tusks, which must 

 have modified in a singular manner the form and 

 structure of the trunk. The tusks are very long, 

 more or less spirally arched and directed out- 

 wards. 



In the Petersburg Museum, there is an indivi- 

 dual preserved, with portions of its skin and flesh, 

 discovered a few years past by Mr. Adam, envel- 

 oped in ice, in Siberia. 



When first noticed, it was nearly in a perfect 

 state of preservation, and Avas covered with two 

 sorts of hair, viz. a reddish wool, thick and bushy, 

 and a thick and black main on the neck and along 

 the back. 



Locality. In Europe, these remains abound in 

 northern countries, also in France, Italy and Ger- 

 many. In America they are also scattered over 

 a great range of country, but are more frequently 

 met with in the States of Kentucky, North and 

 South Carolina, Pennsylvania, &c. From obser- 

 vations lately published in the Phil. Jour. Acad. 

 Nat. Sciences, (vid. vol. iii. p. 65.) there would 

 appear to have existed two distinct species in the 

 United States. 



These remains are most generally discovered 

 in the diluvial deposites which fill vallies, or on the 

 borders of rivers: in our own countrv thev are 



