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has 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 in the 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 monster's 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- 



