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we are indebted tor the preservation of the skeleton, 

 and the accounts respecting it. 



Fossil ivorv is found here as in Northern Asia, 

 and the natives manufacture utensils out of it as 

 of morse and physeter teeth. We found, near the 

 ice ground on the point of land where we bi- 

 vouacked, and where the natives had stayed before 

 us, some grinders, Avhich perfectly resembled those 

 of the mammoth, and also a tusk which, by its 

 greater thickness at the root, and its simple curva- 

 tiue considerably differed from the well known 

 mammoth's horns, and seemed to have much more 

 resemblance to the teeth of the present race of 

 elephants. During the night our watch-fire was 

 partly kept up with such ivory. 



We have remarked the greater riches of the 

 arctic Flora, amidst manifold variety of soil on the 

 rocky coast of St. Lawrence Bay ; the greater 

 j)overty, on the other hand, on the flat sandy coast 

 of America, whose hills are uniformly clothed with 

 Sphagnumy and where only, on the rocky island in 

 the interior of the sound, there are some species of 

 Alpine plants which thrive only on a rocky soil. 

 We collected many kinds of plants in St. Lawrence 

 Bay, which we met with no where else. The equally 

 rocky island of St. Lawrence, on which we stopped 

 for but a few moments, showed us several kinds, 

 which it has in common with the bay of the same 

 name, and which are wanting on the Ameiican 

 coast. Lastly, this coast offered us but a few kinds 



