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tesi ; a large head of a whale found within the 

 very precincts of Paris *, and described by Lama- 

 non and Daubenton ; and an entirely new genus, 

 which I have discovered and named Ziphius, and 

 which already contains three species. It is allied 

 to the cachalots and hyperoodons f. 



In the extinct population which fills our allu- 

 vial and superficial strata, and which has lived 

 upon the deposit just alluded to, there are no 

 longer either palaeotheria or anaplothaeria, or, in 

 in fact, any of those singular genera. The pachy- 

 dermata, however, still predominate ; and these 

 are of a gigantic size, elephants, rhinoceroses, 

 and hippopotami, accompanied with innumerable 

 horses and several large ruminantia. Carnivorous 

 animals of the size of the lion, tiger, and hyena, 

 had desolated this new animal kingdom. In ge- 

 neral, its character, even in the extreme north, 

 and on the edges of the present frozen ocean, was 

 similar to that which the torrid zone alone now 

 presents, and yet there was no species in it abso- 

 lutely the same as any of those which are found 

 alive at the present day. 



The most remarkable of these animals is the 

 species of elephant named mammoth by the Rus- 



* " Researches," vol. v. part i. p. 393. 

 t Id. vol. v. part i- p. 352. and 35?. 



