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THE WORLD OF LIFE 



CHAP. 



as was also the huge mammoth whose beautifully curved 

 tusks form its chief distinction from the living Indian 

 elephant (Fig. 86). This species is abundant in the 



frozen mud at the mouths of the Siberian rivers ; and in 

 some cases the whole body is preserved entire, as in an ice- 

 house, and the flesh has been sometimes roasted and eaten 

 by the natives. Remains of skeletons have been found in 

 our own country and over a large part of Northern Europe 

 and Asia ; while its portrait has been drawn from life by 



