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Woij^lis four huntlretl and fourteen pourula nVolnlnpolB. The 

 principal ohject of my caro was to anparate the bones, to ai range 

 thorn, anil put them up safely, which was ilono with particular 

 attention. I Irail the satisfaction to find the others scapula, 

 which had remained not fir olf. I next detached the skin of 

 the side on whicii the animal had lain, which was W(dl preserved. 

 This skin was of such extraordinary weight that ten persona 

 found great difficulty in transporting it to the shore. After 

 this, I dug the ground in different places to ascertain whether 

 any of its bones were buried, but principally to collect all the 

 hair which the white boars, Sic, had trod into the ground 

 while devouring the flesh. Although this was difficult from the 

 want of proper instruments, I succeeded in collecting more 

 than thirty-six pounds of hair. In a few days the work waa 

 c unpleted, and I found myself in possession of a treasure 

 which amply recompensed me for the fatigues and dangers of 

 the journey ami the considerable expenses of the enterprise. 

 The lusks were re purchased at Irkutsk and the whole trans- 

 ported to 8t. Petersburg. The skeleton is now mounted in the 

 museum of the Metropolitan Academy. There is a good figure 

 of it in the volume from which we have taken the description. 

 Copies may be seen in Geological Text Books. There ia a 

 beautiful picture of it in our museum by Mr. Harris, R. A. C. 



49. Mr. Adams gives the following information regarding 

 the situa of the frozen mammoth : " The place where I found 

 the mammoth is about 60 paces distant from the shore, and 

 nearly 100 paces from the escarpu.ent of the ice from which it 

 had fallen. This escarpment occupies exactly the middle 

 between the two points of the Peninsula. The escarpment of 

 ice was thirty-five to forty toises high (240 feet), and according 

 to the report of the Tungusians, the animal was, when they first 

 saw it, seven toises (45 feet) below the surface of the ice." The 

 skin being covered with thick hair induces Cuvier to consider 

 *' that it was the inhabitant of a cold region." Owen remarks : 

 The molar teeth of the Elephants possess a highly complicated, 

 and a very peculiar structure, and there are no other quadrupeds 

 that derive so great a proportion of their food from the woody 



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