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nearly four feet in length, was found in digging the 

 Ellesmere Canal, in the year 1803, near the village 

 of Wrenbury, in Cheshire. B. is one toe of the 

 clawed foot. C. several joints of the tail, which must 

 in the living aul:nal have been as thick as an ordi- 

 nary oak tree. D. one of the vertebrae of the back ; 

 the passage for the spaial marrovv is so large, that a 

 man's arm may with east pass through it. E. is a 

 section of a spiral tusk, thirteen feet in length. F. 

 a carnivorous grinder, nine pounds weight, being 

 one hundred and forty-four times as heavy as that of 

 a horse. G. a large grinder of another species of 

 these stupendous non-descripts, evidently an herbi- 

 vorou.s animal. On the subject however of these In- 

 cognita, but a few words are necessary : they have 

 been on the whole the surprise of the enlightened 

 naturalist, and the admiration of the classical scho- 

 lar ; we therefore refer those, who wish to be more 

 particularly informed respecting these remains, to a 

 pamphlet, entitled " Memoirs of 3Iammoth, and other 

 extraordinary and stupendous bones/' written by the 

 gentleman who brought them to England, and sold 

 them to the Proprietor of this Museum. It may be 

 had at the Rooms, price Is. Qd. 



A Glass Cover near the bones, contains a very 

 interesting article to the Naturalist, as it tends to 

 throw some light on an obscurity which envelopes 

 thefe objects. It is a portion of the different kinds 

 of hair of a species of Mammoth recently found 

 entire, and brought to St. Petersburg by Mr.-Mi- 

 chael Adams, who has published a particular account 

 of it, of which the following is an extract. " In 

 the summer of the year 1799, during their annual 

 excursions, a chief of the Tongouses discovered on 

 ■the shore of the frozen sea, near the mouth of the 

 river Lenna, an entire Mammoth, enclosed in a rock 



