THE ICE AGE 



Richard Owen reconstructed much in the same way that 

 he reconstructed the Moa 9 and of which Dr. Stirling has 

 since found complete specimens in a morass in South 

 Australia. 



Last of all of the great extinct mammals which 

 we shall mention is the Mammoth, which has a 

 peculiar interest because, like the Mylodon, it certainly 

 survived until man was on the earth, as there are many 

 more evidences to prove. 



In one of the caves of France inhabited by prehistoric 

 men and thickly strewn with the chipped flints which 

 they used as tools and weapons, as well as with the 

 bones of extinct animals which they ate, a piece of 

 Mammoth's tusk has been found on which is rudely but 

 cleverly carved, evidently by the men who lived there, 

 the picture of a Mammoth. (There are besides, antlers 

 on which a reindeer is very cleverly and artistically 

 outlined. Even the tuft of hair below the chin is 

 shown, and the great feet and the extra toes are cor- 

 rectly pictured. Clearly the men who drew this reindeer 

 lived with the reindeer ; and besides the reindeer, living 

 near these men in the south of France, was the great 

 Mammoth.) 



The Mammoth was like an Indian elephant, but with 

 a coarse hairy pelt. It was rather bigger than the big 

 Indian elephant, and its tusks had a different curvature ; 

 but we may dispose of the popular idea that it was 

 bigger than any elephant. No Siberian Mammoth has 

 yet been found higher at the shoulders than nine feet 

 six inches, whereas the African elephant stands eleven 



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