136 ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 



The preservation of the flesh of the Mammoth 

 through a long series of ages, is not to be wondered 

 at, when we recollect the constant cold and frost 

 of the climate in which it was found. It is a 

 common practice to preserve meat and berries 

 through the winter by freezing them, and to send 

 fish, and all other provisions annually at that 

 period, from the most remote of the northern 

 provinces, to St Petersburgh and other parts of 

 the empire. 



I shall now proceed to the account which Mr 

 Adams has published of his journey to the Icy 

 Sea, and to the place where the carcass of the 

 Mammoth, whose skeleton is now to be seen in 

 our museum, was found lying on the sand and 

 ice. It was first published in the Journal du 

 Nord, printed at St Petersburgh, in 1807, under 

 the title of " Relation abrege d'un Voyage a la 

 mer Glaciale, et decouverte des restes d'un 

 Mammouth," and afterwards in some German 

 ephemerides, but as they are now scarce, I shall 

 cite his own words. 



(< I should reproach myself if I longer delayed 

 the publication of a zoological discovery, which 

 is highly interesting in its detail, since it makes 

 us acquainted with a species of animal, whose 

 existence was a subject of dispute among our 

 best informed naturalists. 



" I was told at Jakutsk by the merchant PopoflT, 

 chief of tke body of merchants of that town, that 



