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of its snout, and the size of its tusks, he conceives it could not 

 have been able to feed without the assistance of a proboscis ; but 

 SchoumachofF persisted in the assertion, that he never saw any ap- 

 pearance of a trunk, and it does not appear probable, that even 

 his rwde draftsman would have omitted such a striking feature. 

 The skin, three-fourths of which are in possession of Mr. Adams, 

 the part that lay on the ground having been preserved, was of a 

 deep grey colour, and covered with reddish hair and black bristles. 

 These, from the dampness of the ground, had lost some part of 

 their elasticity. More than a poud [401bs.] weight of them, that 

 had been trodden into the ground by the bears, was collected, 

 many of them an archine [2 feet 4 in.] long. What remained of 

 the skin was so heavy, that ten persons found great difficulty in 

 carrying it to the sea-side, in order to stretch it on logs of wood. 

 The head weighs ll pouds [460 lbs.]; the two horns, each of 

 which is lj toise [9j feet] long, weigh 10 pouds [400 lbs.] ; and 

 the entire animal measured 4| archines [10^ feet] high, by 7 [16 

 feet] long. Mr. Adams has seen tusks of the mammoth so curved 

 as to form three .fourths of a circle ; and one at Yakoutsk 2y toises 

 [15 feet 9 in.] long, an archine [2 feet 4 in.] thick near the root, 

 and weighing 7 pouds [280 lbs.]. They are curved in the direction 

 opposite to those of the elephant, bending towards the body of the 

 animal ; and the point is always more or less worn on the outer- 

 side, so that the right tusk is easily distinguishable from the left. 

 He adds, that he found a great quantity of amber on the shores. 



In America this animal, or one so nearly resembling it, as pro- 

 bably to be only a distinct species of the same genus, has only 

 been found in a fossil state ; and generally only particular parts or 

 bones of the animal have been discovered in one place, though 

 other parts have often been traced at no great distance. This has 

 frequently occurred near the lakes of Canada, where the animal 

 is called by the savages, the father of oxen ; near the rivers which 

 fall into the Ohio ; towards the rivers Miami, Muskingum, in the 

 state of Kentucky, and of Tennessee, &c. &c. but principally 

 near the salt springs, where pieces of skeletons and tusks have 

 been found, of an astonishing length and weight. 



A femur and a tibia have been found, which, when united, must 

 have been five feet and a half high ; another femur, which was 

 alone five feet long, and 36 inches in circumference in its middle 

 or cylindrical part ; ivory tusks resembling those of an elephant, 



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