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of little use. In younger ones they were less curved. The hair 

 that still remains on the skin of the St. Petersburg specimen is 

 of the colour of the camel, very thick-set and curled in locks. 

 Bristles of a dark colour are interspersed, some reddish, and 

 some nearly black. The colour of the skin is a dull black, as 

 in living elephants (see restoration, Plate XLIX.). 



Eemains of the Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) have been 

 found in great numbers in the British Isles. Mr. Samuel 



FIG. 107. Skeleton of Mammoth, Elephas primigenius (partly restored), in the 

 Museum at Brussels. Drawn (from a photograph) by J. Smit. 



Woodward calculated that upward of two thousand grinders of 

 elephants have been dredged up during a period of thirteen years 

 upon the oyster-bed off Hasborough, on the Norfolk coast. But 

 many of these doubtless belong to other species of older date, 

 such as Elephas antiquus. 



Dr. Bree, of Colchester, says that the sea-bottom off Dunkirk, 

 whence he has made a collection, is so full of mammalian remains 

 that the sailors speak of it as " the Bury ing-ground." 



