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dwrmg the first twelve months, huHrlreds of the moTnr teeth of 

 Minmmoths wer<; landed in strange association with the edible- 

 mollusca. Remaina of the mammoth are hardly less numerous, 

 in Suffolk, aloni,' the coast, and at Sutton. The village of 

 Walton, near Harwich, is famoMs for the abundance of these- 

 fossils, which lie along the base of the sea-cliffs, mixed with 

 hones of species of horse, ox and deer. A very distinctive- 

 feature of the Elephas prlmigenlua (mammoth) is the tusks. 

 These have an extensive doublte cwrvature. One of the finest 

 tusks of a I'ritish mammoth was found at Ilford. It measured 

 12 foot 6 inches in length along the outward curvature. A 

 tusk frnm a brick-field at Kingsland, of which there is a model 

 in the miweum of the Geclogical Society of London, measures. 

 9 feet 10 inches along tha outer curve. Another, from the 

 drift near Happisburg, dredged up in 182&, measured nine feet 

 six inches, and weighed ninety seven pounds. Others have 

 been found weighing from one hundred to one hundred and 

 sixty pounds each. The more bulky bones of Walton seem 

 early to have attracted the attention of the curious. Lambaid 

 in his Dictionary says that " In Queen Elizabeth's time bones 

 were found of a man, whose skul'l would contain five pecks, and 

 one of his teeth as big as a man's fist, and weighed ten oiincefl.**" 

 The remains of mammoths have everywhere been the prolifio/ 

 source of the traditions and histories of Giants and sometimes 

 of Saints : Lu».,ovicus Vives relates that a molar tooth, bigger 

 than a fist was shown to him as one of St. Christophe/s teeth and 

 was kept in a church that bears his name."^ — Owen's Fossil 

 Mammals. 



47. The remains of the great mammoth have been noticed 

 as occurriiig in Europe and the Uritish Isles, iu superficial 

 deposits to which have been gi>"en the names — Post-pliocene- 

 Pleistocene, Quaternary, Diluvium, &o. They are found in still 

 greater abundance in the same formation in the higher latitudes 

 of Europe, Asia and America, from the L^iver Lena to Behring'a 

 Straits. They range from latitude, 40* to 70'. No authentic 

 cases of remains have been found in tropical latitudes or in 

 the southdn hemisphere. Siberia seems to have been thft 



