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southern species, tne Elephas Americanus. The Mammoth (fig. 

 266) is considerably larger than the largest of the living Ele- 



phants, the skeleton being over sixteen feet in length, exclusive 

 of the tusks, and over nine feet in height. The tusks are bent 

 almost into a circle, and are sometimes twelve feet in length, 



