186 ANIMALS OF THE PAST: 
procession through the streets in order to 
bring rain ? 
Out of Europe eastward into Asia the mam- 
moth took his way, and having peopled that 
vast region, took advantage of a land connec- 
tion then existing between Asia and North 
America and walked over into Alaska, in com- 
pany with the forerunners of the bison and the 
ancestors of the mountain sheep and Alaskan 
brown bear. Still eastward and southward he 
went, until he came to the Atlantic coast, the 
latitude of southern New York roughly mark- 
ing the southern boundary of the broad domain 
over which the mammoth roamed _ undis- 
turbed.* Not that of necessity all this vast area — 
was occupied at one time; but this was the — 
range of the mammoth during Pleistocene — 
time, for over all this region his bones and 
teeth are found in greater or less abundance — 
and in varying conditions of preservation. In 
regions like parts of Siberia and Alaska, where — 
* This must be taken as a very general statement, as the dis- — 
tinction between and habitats of Elephas primigenius and Ele- 
phas columbi, the southern mammoth, are not satisfactorily 
determined ; moreover, the two species overlap through amide — 
area of the West and Northwest. 
