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lias been erected for the accommodation of this antedilu- 

 vian, a dark mountain of flesh rises before him. He had 

 gauged his apprehension to the familiar bulk of the ele- 

 phant, but here his eye must be lifted to a higher alti- 

 tude ; his whole thought must swell to take hTthe idea 

 of the towering form which looms above him and frowns 



THE HAIRY MAMMOTH RESTORED. FROM A RESTORATION IN THE 

 ESTABLISHMENT OF PROFESSOR H. A. WARD, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



darkly and severely down upon him. The monsters brow 

 rises like some old granite dome, weather-beaten and 

 darkened by the lapse of geologic ages. Two winding 

 streams of ivory descend like glaciers from the base of 

 the dome, while the corrugated and ' beetling proboscis 

 swells between them like the embattled crest which di- 



