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inches long, and weighed 176 pounds. The 
largest, most beautiful tusks, probably, ever 
seen in this country were a pair brought from 
Zanzibar and displayed by Messrs. Tiffany & 
Company in 1900. The measurements and 
weights of these were as follows : length along 
outer curve, ten feet and three-fourths of an — 
inch, circumference one foot, eleven inches, 
weight, 224 pounds; length along outer curve, 
ten feet, three and one-half inches, circumfer- 
ence two feet and one-fourth of an inch, weight, 
239 pounds. 
For our knowledge of the external appear- 
ance of the mammoth we are indebted to the 
more or less entire examples which have been 
found at various times in Siberia, but mainly 
to the noted specimen found in 1799 near the 
Lena, embedded in the ice, where it had been 
reposing, so geologists tell us, anywhere from 
10,000 to 50,000 years. How the creature 
gradually thawed out of its icy tomb, and the 
tusks were taken by the discoverer and sold 
for ivory ; how the dogs fed upon the flesh in 
summer, while bears and wolves feasted upon 
it in winter; how the animal was within an 
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