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'wore seen atonml. The skeleton almost entirely cleared of flesh 

 Teinuined whole, with the exception of one fore-leg. [Note. — 

 Thia has been restored in plaster of Puria from the other side.] 

 The spine from the head to the os eocejjgi*, [Xote. — This is an 

 •error, as of the twentyeij^ht or thirty caudal vertebroo, only 

 •eight are remaining ] One sc.ipula, the Iwsin and the three 

 extremities, were still hold together by lij^aments and by parts 

 of dry skin. The head was covereil with a dry skin^ one of 

 the cars being \vcll preserved, [N'ote. — The ears are not well 

 jareserved, but may perhaps have suffered in so k)ng a carriage,] 

 was furnished with a tuft of hair. All these parts have 

 necessarily been injured in transporting them eleven thousand 

 verts, (seven thousand three hundred and thirty miles.) Yet 

 the eyes have been preserved, and the pupil of the left eye can 

 atill be perceived, [I^ote. — A dried substance is visible, but it 

 ia not certain whether it is the pupil of the eye,] the point of 

 the lower lip has been gnawed, uml the upjier one having been 

 tlestroyed the teeth could be perceived. The brain was still in 

 the cranium, but appeared dried up. The parts least injured 

 •are one fore-^foot and one hind'foot ; they are covered with skin 

 and have the sole still attached. According to the assertion of 

 the Tungusian chief, the animal was so fat and well fed that 

 its belly hung down below the joints of the knees. This 

 mammoth was a male with a long mane on the neck, but with- 

 out tail or proboscis, [IVute. — The places of the insertion of the 

 muscles of the proboscis are visible on the skull; it was 

 probably devoured as well as the end of the tail.] The skin of 

 which I possess three-fourths, is of a dark gray colour, covered 

 •with a reddish wool and black hairs. The dampness of the spot 

 where the animal had lain so long, had in some degree destroyed 

 the hair. The entire carcase, of which I collected the bones on 

 the spot is nine feet four inches high, sixteen feet four inches 

 long, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail without 

 including the tusks which are a toise and a half (3 feet 6 inches) 

 in length, (9 feet 6 inches measuring along the curve. The 

 distance from the base of the root to the tusk to the point, is 3 

 feet 7 inches). The two togethei* weighed three hundred and 

 sixty pounds avoirdupois , the liead alone without the tusks 



