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existing Elephant. But says Broderip/ "no human eye beheld him 

 as he stalked silently along in his might over desolate tracks, 

 where corn now grows, and the busy hum of civilization is heard." 

 Six or seven feet is the average length of the tusks in living 

 Elephants, although instances have occurred of a much greater 

 length. A tusk has lately been found in the Drift near Stroud, 

 nearly fifteen feet in length. What must have been the size of 

 the entire animal ? It is now in the Museum of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural College, Cirencester. The huge monster to which this tusk 

 belonged, if not a native of Wiltshire, was certainly a near neighbour. 



The recent Rhinoceros, as is well known, inhabits the hot 

 climates of the Old World, where it leads a tranquil and indolent 

 life, wallowing in the borders of lakes and rivers, and occasionally 

 bathing itself in their waters. The remains of the fossil species 

 have been found in the ice of the shores of the Lena, and although 

 the woolly covering of its body was not seen, yet Professor Owen 

 infers from the hair which covered the legs, that it was furnished 

 with a warm covering of this kind, like the Musk Ox, and other 

 animals which have on their legs short hair unmixed with wool. 

 The teeth do not present such differences as would lead us to expect 

 that the fossil animal differed materially from the recent; and it 

 is concluded by the naturalist before cited, that as it could not dis- 

 pense with succulent vegetable food any more than its existing 

 congeners, the well clothed individuals who might extend their 

 wanderings northward, during a brief, hot, Siberian summer, 

 would be compelled to migrate southward to obtain subsistence 

 during the winter. 



Tlieir bones and teeth have been found in most places which 

 have furnished remains of the Mammoth. 



The Munk Ox or Buffalo is on the contrary an inhabitant only 

 of the coldest regions of North America, and derives its name from 

 its possessing a strong musky odour. It appears larger than it 

 really is, from the profusion of long matted woolly hair with which 

 it is covered. 



Three instances only have occurred of the discovery of this 

 ' Zoological Rt'croatioiiH, p. 325. 



