1.4S Jutirneij to the Frozen Sea, and 



nerves of the joints, and by strips of skin on the exterior 

 side of the carcase. The head was covered with a dry skin j 

 one of the ears, well preserved, was furnished with a tuft of 

 bristles. All these parts must necessarily have suffered by a 

 carriage of 1 1,000 wersts. The eyes, however, are preserved, 

 and we can still distinguish the ball of the left eye. The tip 

 of the under lip has been eaten away, and the upper part, 

 being destroyed, exhibited the teeth. The brain was still 

 within the cranium, but it appeared dry. 



The parts least damaged are a fore foot and a hind one ; 

 they are covered with skin, and have still the sole attached. 

 According to the assertion of the Toungouse chief, the 

 animal had been so large and 'u- 11 fed, that its belly hung 

 down below the knee joints. This mammoth is a male, 

 with a long mane at his neck, but it has no tail and no trunk. 

 The skin, three-fourths of which are in my possession, is of 

 a deep gray, and covered with a reddish hair and black bristles. 

 The humidity of the soil where the animal has lain so long, 

 has made the bristles lose some part of their elasticity. The 

 entire carcase, the bones of which I collected upon the spot, 

 is 4 archines and a half high by 7 long, from the tip of the 

 nose to the coccyx* ; without however comprehending the 

 two horns, each of which is a toise and a half long, and 

 both together weigh 10 poudsf. The head alone weighs 

 eleven pouds and a half. 



The principal object of my care was to separate the bones, 

 to arrange them and place them in safety: this was done with 

 the most scrupulous nicety, and I had the satisfaction of 

 flndini'^ the other shoulder-blade, which lay in a hole. I 

 afterwards caused the skin to be stripped from the side upon 

 which the animal had lain ; it was very well preserved. This 

 bkin was of such an extraordinary weight, that ten persons 

 who were employed to carry it to the sea side, in order to 

 stretch it on floating wood, moved it with great difficulty. 

 Afterihis operation I caused the ground to be dug in various 

 places in order to see if there were any bones around, but 



* All archinc is a little more than two feet English measure. 

 I A poud is 40 pounds. 



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