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wool with which the Mammoth was clothed, must have enabled it, 
like the Musk Ox, to have braved the rigours of a northern winter. 
Fig. 1. represents the right ramus of the lower jaw with the fourth grinder of the Elephas 
Primigenius or Mammoth, reduced one-fifth : found in the mud at low-water, opposite the new 
Thorney station at Selsey in 1841 by James Bly, one of the coast-guard, who informed me that 
the tusks of the same head were discovered and taken away some years previous. I possess the 
fourth grinder of both sides of the upper jaw of the same specimen. 
Fig. 2. is a view of the same tooth as fig. 1, showing the grinding surface and irregular-shaped 
plates. Mr. Owen considers it to haye been from an animal not full-grown, and with the teeth 
rather narrower than usual. 
Specimens contaming the teeth in their sockets are rare in this country. Many detached 
teeth and bones of the Mammoth have been found on the shore at Selsey and Bracklesham. I 
possess teeth from the mud deposit of Bognor, Littlehampton and Worthing, and I have seen 
tusks that have been discovered in the Isle of Wight in such preservation that they might be cut 
into ornaments. At Peppering near Arundel, an interesting account of the discovery of a fossil 
