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collected from the sand bonk more- than forty pounds of tLe bristles which the 

 white bears might have trodden into the wet ground on devouring the flesh. 

 Some of the hair was presented to the Museum of Natural History of Paris, .md 

 on examination it was found to consist of three distinct kinds ; one of these is 

 stifF black bristles, two feet in length ; another is thinner bristles of coarse flexible 

 hair, of a reddish brown colour, and the third is a course reddish brown wool 

 which grew among the roots of the long h*air; affording, according to Cuvier, an 

 undeniable proof that this animal has belonged to a race of elephants inhabiting 

 * cold region. See an Account of a Journey to the Frozen Seas, and of the 

 Discovery of the Remains of a Mammoth, by Michael Adams of St. Petersburg^ 

 in the 29th volume of Tilljck's Philosophical Magazine ; and Cuvier^s Ftsay on 

 the Theory of the Earth, translated by Jc meson. 



Mr. Adams was persuaded, from the presence of the coccyx, which finishes Ue 

 vertebral column, that this animal had a very short and thick tail, like its feet. 

 He also states that its teeth are harder, heavier, and more twisted in a different 

 direction, than the teeth of an elephant ; that he has seeu some of their tusks, 

 which formed, in their curvature, three fourths of a circle, and one of the length <rf 

 two toises and a half, two feet thick near the root, and two hundred and eighty 

 pounds weight ; that the animal is covered with a very thick hair through the 

 whole body, and has a long mane upon its neck ; and he believes, that, although 

 no trunk was found, yet that it had one which was carried offby wild beasts; for 

 it would be inconceivable that it could eat with so small a snout and with such 

 enormous tusks without a proboscis ; and he fully believes that it is quite dif- 

 ferent from that found in Ulster county in this state. 



M. Humboldt, in his letters dated Lima, 1202, to C. Delambres, one of the 

 perpetual secretaries of the National Institute, says, " Beside the elephants' 

 teeth which we sent to G. Cuvier, from the land of Santa Fee, one thousand 

 three hundred and fifty toises ir, height, we have preserved for him others more 

 beautiful : some of the carnivorous elephant, and others of a species a little dii- 

 ferent from those of Africa, brought from the valley of Timaney, the town of 

 Iborra, and from Chili. Here, then, we have confirmed the existence of that 

 carnivorous monster from the river Ohio, from fifty degrees northern latitude 

 to thirty five degrees south latitude." 



u Near Santa Fee there are found, in the Campo de Gigante, at the height of 

 one thousand three hundred and seventy toises, an immense number of fossil ele 

 phants' bones, both of the african species and of the carnivous kind, discovered 

 near the Ohio. We caused several to be dug up, and have sent some specimen 

 of them to the National Institute. I much doubt whether any of these bones 

 were ever before found at such a great height : since that time I have received 

 two from a place of the Andes, situated about two degrees of latitude from Quito 



