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Dr. Buckland, 1 and Dr. Virey 2 have advanced some satis- 

 factory arguments which prove that the Mammoth could 

 not have existed in the countries in which its fossil 

 remains are so abundant, if it had been exposed to a 

 great degree of cold. It is remarked with respect to the 

 remains of fossil elephants, which are so numerous without 

 the tropics, in regions too cold for their existence, that 

 none have been hitherto found in those countries which 

 they actually inhabit at the present time. 3 This throws 

 no small degree of doubt upon that hypothesis which 

 assigns them for their habitation the countries in which 

 their remains are now deposited : but with regard to the 

 remains of coral reefs 4 found in the Arctic seas, no 

 doubt can be entertained that at the period of their 

 formation, those seas were warm enough to suit the tem- 

 perature of the animals that formed them ; but which no 

 longer exist and rear their structures in those latitudes. 

 I met with the following extract in the Literary Gazette 

 for April 7, 1832 ; it is taken from a work entitled Six 

 Months in North America, by G. T. Vigne, Esq. : " The 

 fossil remains of about thirty animals, now supposed to 

 be extinct, have been found at the Big-bone lick; and 

 Mr. Bullock conjectures that there are more remaining. 

 That these animals did not perish on the spot, but were 

 carried and deposited by the mighty torrent, which it is 

 evident once spread over the country, is probable from 

 the circumstance of marine shells, plants, and fossil sub- 

 stances having been found not only mixed with the 

 bones, but adhering to them, and tightly wedged in the 



1 Supplement to Captain Beechey's Voyage, ii. 355, 356. 



2 N. D. D'H. N. x. 162. 

 s Ibid. 169. 



4 Dr. Buckland in the Appendix to Beechey's Voyage, ii. 355. 



