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young, both racially and intellectually, and whose body had been 

 borne down a stream which, like the mammoth, had in turn passed 

 to the great beyond leaving no traces except the water-worn pebbles, 

 sand and silt, with the form of its channel forever obliterated. 



The remains of this elephant \vere lying well up the side of a gentle 

 slope, perhaps two hundred yards from the present bed of the creek, 

 which, during Pleistocene times, had carried the bones to their final 

 resting place and there interred the remains of this mighty creature. 



Fig. 97. — Trowel points to molar of Mammoth in 

 place in jawbone. 



Not only the character of the soil, but the position of many of the 

 bones indicated that the skeleton had been washed down the stream 

 until it finally stranded and was covered up with alluvium. 



The head was lying nearly at right angles to the backbone and was 

 resting on a misplaced rib as seen in figure 96. The lower jaw had 

 been twisted around so that it was lying cross-wise under the ponder- 

 ous skull, which was four feet and eight inches long. More than half 

 the entire length of the great tusks had disintegrated and had been 

 resolved into soil. The left tusk was protected by more soil than the 

 right one so that one could trace its position in the ground for some 



