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ber.s, yet with no perceptible diminution of the stock ; doubtless 

 many of these animals were drifted down towards the arctic seas 

 by the immense rivers which'flow northward into the icy ocean. 

 The subjoined figure represents the skeleton of the celebrated, 

 elephant discovered by a Tungusian fisherman, in the year 1790, 

 in. the banks of a river in Siberia, in which it had been frozen up 

 for ages. The skin of this animal was of a dark grey color, and 



covered with reddish wool. The two tusks, together, weighed 

 three hundred and sixty pounds, and the head alone, four hundred 

 and fourteen pounds ; the flesh of this antediluvian was in such 

 perfect preservation, that the dogs, white bears, wolves and foxes 

 fed upon it. The eyes were well preserved, and the pupil in one 

 of them could be distinguished. The fossil Siberian elephant 

 differed but little from the one now inhabiting India, except in its 

 wooly covering ; its food was probably twigs and branches, in pur- 

 suit of which, herds of these gigantic quadrupeds probably mi- 

 grated far north. The remains of elephants are very widely dis- 

 tributed ; they are found in England and various parts of Amer- 

 ica ; the teeth of the elephant may be readily distinguished from 

 those of the mastodon, another large hebiverous animal belong- 

 ing to this period, by a peculiar structure we will now describe. 

 "We here represent the teeth of the recent and fossil elephant ; a 

 the African, b the Indian or Asiatic, c the Siberian or fossil. In 

 the first variety, (a} the enamel is arranged in lozenge -shaped 

 figures, and in the second (b) in narrow transverse bands, very 



