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bones have been found ; and, secondly, did there 

 exist in the present day so many species of huge 

 animals of carnivorous propensities, that power 

 and command which the human race holds over 

 the inferior creation might be disputed. 



It is curious that skeletons of the hyaena, the 

 hippopotamus, the rhinoceros, and the elephant, 

 have been frequently discovered in Britain and 

 in most parts of Europe, in countries and cli- 

 mates where no animals of these kinds were ever 

 known in a living state, and in which the known 

 species, inhabitants of the torrid zone, would be 

 speedily destroyed ; demonstrating that particu- 

 lar animals have existed in countries where they 

 are now unknown ; and, moreover, that certain 

 animals have also lived on the earth's surface, 

 belonging to species, and even to genera, entire- 

 ly new to us. Of this description is the celebra- 

 ted mammoth, a huge monster somewhat similar 

 to the elephant, but specifically distinguishable 

 both from that of Asia and Africa, discovered 

 enveloped in an ice-berg in Siberia, in 1799. 

 The whole animal, as described by Mr. Adams in 

 1806, was in perfect preservation, with the flesh, 

 skin, and long black hair, with which, unlike the 

 elephants of tropical climates, it was covered. A 

 very singular skeleton of an animal, now quite 

 unknown to exist, was lately found in Germany, 

 and another very extraordinary one, and of an 

 immense size, was not long since dug from the 

 alluvial soil of Buenos Ayres. It is almost ap- 

 palling to contemplate the fearful convulsions 



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