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of little use. In younger ones they were less curved. The hair 
that still remains on the skin of the St. Petersburg specimen is 
of the colour of the camel, very thick-set and curled in locks. 
Bristles of a dark colour are interspersed, some reddish, and 
some nearly black. The colour of the skin is a dull black, as 
in living elephants (see restoration, Plate XLIX.). 
Remains of the Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) have been 
found in great numbers in the British Isles. Mr. Samuel 
Fie. 107.—Skeleton of Mammoth, Elephas primigenius (partly restored), in the 
Museum at Brussels. Drawn (from a photograph) by J. Smit. 
Woodward calculated that upward of two thousand grinders of 
elephants have been dredged up during a period of thirteen years 
upon the oyster-bed off Hasborough, on the Norfolk coast. But 
many of these doubtless belong to other species of older date, 
such as Elephas antiquus. 
Dr. Bree, of Colchester, says that the sea-bottom off Dunkirk, 
whence he has made a collection, is so full of mammalian remains 
that the sailors speak of it as “ the Burying-ground.” 
