120 Journey to the Frozen- Sea, and 



XV. Some Account of a Journey to the Frozen- Sea, 

 and of the Discovery of the Remains of a Mammoth. 

 By M. Michael Adams, of St. Petersburgh, 

 Translated from the French. 



I SHOULD have reason to reproach myself 

 were I to delay any longer the publication of a discovery 

 in Zoology, which is so much the more interesting to 

 be detailed, as it once more presents to our view a spe- 

 cies of animal, the existence of which has been a sub- 

 ject of dispute among the most celebrated naturalists. 



I was informed at Jakoutsk, by M. PopofF, who is at 

 the head of the company of merchants of that town, that 

 they had discovered, upon the shores of the Frozen-Sea, 

 near the mouth of the river Lena, an animal of an extra- 

 ordinary size : the flesh skin, and hair, were in good 

 preservation, and it was supposed that the fossile pro- 

 duction, known by the name of Mammoth-horns, must 

 have belonged to some animal of this kind. 



M. PopofF had, at the same time, the goodness to 

 communicate the drawing and description of this ani- 

 mal ; I thought proper to send both to the President of 

 the Petersburgh Academy. The intelligence of this in- 

 teresting discovery determined me to hasten my in- 

 tended journey to the banks of the Lena, as far as the 

 Frozen-Sea, and I was anxious to save these precious 

 remains, which might, perhaps, otherwise be lost. My 

 stay at Jakoutsk, therefore, only lasted a few days. I 

 out on the 7th of June, 180G, provided with some 



