16 Distribution^ Food and Climate of the Mammoth. 



neck ; the tail was much mutilated, only eight, out of twenty- 

 eight or thirty caudal vertebrae, remaining ; the proboscis was 

 gone, but the places of the insertion of its muscles were visible 

 on the skull. The skin, of which about three-fourths were saved, 

 was of a dark grey color, covered with a reddish wool, and coarse 

 long black hairs. The dampness of the spot where the animal 

 had lain so long, had in some degree destroyed the hair. The 



mutilated 



from 



nine feet four inches. The tusks measured along the curve nine 

 feet six inches, and in a straight line from the base to the point, 

 three feet seven inches. 



and had the satisfaction to 



Mr 



find the other scapula, which had remained, not far off. He 



detached the skin on the side on which the animal had lain, 

 which was well preserved ; the weight of the skin was such, that 



After 



difficulty in transporting it to the shore. 



whether any of its bones were buried, but principally to collect 

 all the hairs which the white bears had trod into the ground 

 while devouring the flesh: and more than thirty-six pounds' 

 weight of hair were thus recovered. The tusks were repurchased 

 at Jatusk, and the whole expedited thence to St. Petersburg ; the 

 skeleton is now mounted in the museum of the Petropolitan 

 Academy.* 



might have been expected 



unusual 



anization 



') 



Mammoth 



legitimate boundary, 



Mam 



it for a more tempe 

 Elephants,! no furth 



climate, and mode of life 



JlL£JT^SL i he "H'V"? som , eof the **** of this animal, were sent hv Mr ; 



Culled !,f fc i £r pfc "Sift Wh -° P resented them to the Museum of the Royal 

 I ollege of burgeons. The hair is entirely R pnnr»t^ <v„™i ,i.~ .u:« -«.;«« Tin 



one small part, where . 

 common hair and bristl 



lpncfk o^» *\ \~\ rWi - mere are several varieties, differing »• 



cu fed • ?, i In,. J^. tremaming fixed on the skin is thick-set and crifplj 



curled u is interspersed with a few br sties „hn..t .!,,„„ :-. u~ i„„„ „r „ Hark 



reddish color 



the short hair just 



— ~:-r - ■ ' • 'ew unsues, about three inches Jong, of a dam 



r. Among the separate parcels of hair are some rather redder than 

 ir just mentioned, about four inches long, and some bristles nearly 



i thicker than hnrRA.haii- -»n,i £. . ___ _i s ' . . . i^« rf 



lack ^, nh t» J - b m ™" on ™> «*>« four inches long, and some bristles oesrir 

 T e skin w T«1 h , h f 0, : se - h , air i T and from twel ™ to eighteen inches long 

 no Wo ,Ldi ;t A 8 a l °K theMuseu ™> was offensive to the smell. I»« 



s ; e q u y u <• ^ rd ,'. and ^ er t most com Paet is half an inch thick. Its color 

 «» ine dull black of the living Elephant. 



qu-iUtaVn^- t "' S ° n d ° nt CCt anima i 6,ait convert somblerait memo demontrer, 

 ■ • - U 0r?aniS6 J P°» r ■ u PP, ort £ un de 8? de froid plus grand que celui qui con- 



« de I lode. — PuUt, Paleoruologu, 8vo, torn, i, p. 71, 1844. 



v lent a TeJuphan 



