5-i THE MAMMOTH. 



Yenesei, near the Arctic Circle, latitude 66° 30' Norths 

 with some 23arts of the flesh in a perfect state of preserva- 

 tion. The ball of the eye is in the Museum at Moscow. 

 In the same year, two other carcasses, one of them that 

 of a young individual, were met with in latitude 75° 15' 

 N,, near the river Taimyr, with the flesh decayed. They 

 were imbedded in strata of clay and sand, with erratic 

 blocks, at about fifteen feet above the level of the sea. 



In 18G0 a great number of bones of the mammoth were 

 found in Belgium, in the province of Antwerp, while dig- 

 ging a canal at Lierre. M. Dupont constructed from these 

 bones an entire skeleton of a young mammoth, eleven feet 

 six inches high (to the shoulder), which was placed in the 

 Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels. 



In 1866 many skeletons were found retaining the skin 

 and hair, in the flat country near the mouth of the Yen- 

 esei, between lat. 70° and 75° N. The heads of most 

 of them were turned towards the south. 



The Academy of St. Petersburg, in 1869-70, sent out 

 an exploring expedition under Herr Yon May dell, to the 

 river Indigiska, to examine some remains said to have been 

 discovered there. The exploring party found the skin and 

 hair as well as the bones of the mammoth at tw^o points on 

 the river, about thirty miles distant from each other, and 

 sixty-six miles from the Arctic Sea. 



V. CLIMATE. 



Judging solely by our knowledge of the elephant it 

 would appear that the climate of Siberia w^as tropical 

 when the mammoth fed upon the banks of the Lena and 

 other tributaries of the Arctic Ocean. The present hab- 

 itat of the elephant is tropical, and it is classed as a tropi- 

 cal animal. The geologists, from their studies of the ter- 

 tiary formations, expected to find only tropical fauna and 

 flora in the epoch immediately succeeding. To conclude 



