THE ICE AGE 



avoirdupois. Mr. Adams took every care to collect all 

 that remained of this unique specimen of an ancient 

 creation, and forwarded the parts to St. Petersburg, 

 a distance of 11,000 versts (7330 miles). He suc- 

 ceeded in repurchasing what he believed to be the 

 tusks at Yakutsk, and the Emperor of Russia, who be- 

 came the owner of this precious relic, paid him 8000 

 roubles. 



The skeleton is deposited in the museum of the Academy 

 of St. Petersburg, and the skin still remains attached to 

 the head and the feet. 



A very curious example of the Siberian Mammoth was 

 discovered only a few years ago by a Lamut of one of the 

 Arctic villages, and through the energy of Dr. Herz was 

 eventually removed in pieces to St. Petersburg. In the 

 Zoological Museum there the reconstructed Mammoth 

 now crawls out of a huge pit, for it was by falling into 

 a pit that this fine beast met his death hundreds of 

 generations ago. It was sunk in frozen ground, and 

 this cold-storage treatment had preserved it in an 

 extraordinary manner. If the Siberian natives who 

 discovered it partially buried in alluvial deposit had 

 not uncovered it, so that the sun was able to play on 

 the carcase and produced decay, this wonderful primeval 

 monster might almost have been got out whole. As 

 it was the frozen ground had so kept the remains that 

 Dr. Herz found well-preserved fragments of food between 

 the teeth, and the remains of a hearty meal in the 

 stomach. There is no doubt that the Mammoth fell 

 into the crevice or pit and damaged himself so much 



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