132 THE ELEPHANT OF AFRICA. 



An account of the fossil Pachydermes would 

 ead us beyond our limits, besides encroaching upon 

 fhe contents of a volume, which we propose to 

 devote to a consideration of ancient Mammalia, 

 and the huge reptilian forms; but we cannot 

 omit here a notice of the animal discovered at the 

 mouth of the Lena, and of the Mastodon, as 

 shewing the form of the proboscis bearing 

 animals of the New World, The account of the 

 first we transcribe entire, being of great interest, 

 from the perfect and almost fresh state in 

 which the animal was discovered, and exhibiting 

 a different hairy covering when compared with 

 the living animals we are now acquainted with. 

 We add a reduced plate of the figure whicli 

 accompanies it. 



