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tallied, though some bones and many tusks 

 have been brought away as curiosities. 



The Mammoth was a smaller animal than 

 is commonly supposed, much smaller than the 

 Southern Mammoth, Elephas columbi, the Co- 

 lumbian elephant, which preceded it and at- 

 tained a height of 13 feet. The Northern 

 Mammoth appears to have rarely reached 10 

 feet, being about the size of the living Indian 

 elephant. The average size of the bones found 

 is, however, larger than the average bones of 

 that animal ; this because, as a rule, they rep- 

 resent full-grown specimens that had lived their 

 allotted time, while the elephants seen in cap- 

 tivity are very largely immature animals. 



The Mastodon seems to have outlived the 

 Mammoth and was probably contemporary with 

 early man in North America, while it can only 

 be said that the Mammoth was possibly so. 

 There is, however, as yet no definite proof that 

 in this country man lived at the same time as 

 either of these animals. The readers of this 

 chapter are warned not to put implicit faith in 

 any statements to the contrary, while they are 



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