

V ERTEBRATA. 



•IL ANIMALS IiESTOIilJI) : MAMMOTH, HIPPOPOTAMUS, CAVE BEAKS, TIGERS, AND HTENAS. 



that region. I >ne day he saw among the blocks of ice a shapeless mass, but did not then discover 

 wliat it was. In 1 sou lie perceived that tliis object was more disengaged from the ice, and that 

 id t\\<> projecting part-, and toward the end of the summer of 1801 the entire side of the ani- 

 mal and one of Ins tusks were quite free from ice. The summer of 1802 was cold, hut in 1803 

 of the i'-'- between the earth and the Mammoth, for such was the object, having melted mere 

 rapidly than the rest, the plane of its support became inclined, and the enormous mass fell by its 

 ..wn weight "ii a hank of Band. In March, 1804, Schumachoff came to his Mammoth, and having 

 cut off the tusks, exchanged them with a merchant by the name of Adams for goods of tlve value 

 of titty rubles. For some years the flesh of this animal was cut off tor dog-meat by the people 

 ind, and bears, wolves, gluttons, and foxes fed upon it till the skeleton was nearly cleared of 

 flesh. About three-fourth- of th,' skin, which was of a reddish-gray color, and covered with 

 reddish wool and Mack hair- eight inches long, was saved, and such was its weight that it re- 

 quired ten persons to remove it: the bones of the head, with the tusks, weighed four hundred and 

 '■ii pounds. The skeleton was taken t<> St. Petersburg, where it maybe seen still in the. Mu- 

 seum of Natural History; twenty-six pounds of the hair, which was secured, can also be seen. 

 height of tie- skeleton i- nine and a half feet and the length of the bodv is sixteen feet. This 

 animal mii-t have been twice the -]/,■ of lie' existing elephant, and weighed at least twenty thou- 

 I pound-! 

 This Bpccies ha- received the name of Elephas primigenius. Bones of this and many other ex- 

 tinct elephantine animals, forming Beveral species, are met with in different parts of the world; 

 arc found associated with the huge bones of the Hippopotamus major, the Cave-Bear, Ursus 

 - law, the Cave Hyena, Canis Hyaena Speloeus, and an enormous tiger, Machairodus latidens, 



