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25. Remains of the Mammoth. — On Saturday, two tusks 

 of the Mammoth, brought home by Captain Beechy, were 

 exhibited, and described to the Wernerian Society, by 

 Professor Jameson. They are in fine preservation, and 

 not bent in one direction, but twisted spirally, like the horns 

 of some species of cows. The smallest, which is quite en- 

 tire, is nine feet nine inches in length ; the largest, which 

 wants a small part of the point, must have measured ori- 

 ginally twelve feet. Judging from analogy. Professor Jame- 

 son stated, that the mammoth to which the largest be- 

 longed, must have been fifteen or sixteen feet high, and con- 

 sequently larger than the elephant, which is an animal of the 

 same species. They were found on the west coast of America, 

 near Beering's Straits, at EscholzBay, latitude 66, in a very 

 remarkable bluff, which has been described by Kotzebue. — 

 The bluff has a covering of earth and grass, but Kotzebue, 

 while encamped on it, having cut through the surface for 

 some purpose, was surprised to find, that what he took for a 

 portion of terra firma, was in reality a mountain of ice, a hun- 

 dred feet in height above the level of the water, but attach- 

 ed to the land, as such icebergs generally are. This discov- 

 ery led to another still more interesting. It was found that 

 this mass of ice had imbedded in it a vast number of the tusks, 

 teeth, and bones of the mammoth, of which the objects we 

 have described, are a part. These remains must have been 

 enclosed in the ice by the same catastrophe that buried the 

 mammoth, which was found entire in a singular envelope on 

 the banks of the Lena, thirty years ago ; and that catastro- 

 phe, beyond a doubt, was no other than the general deluge, 

 which extinguished the raceof animals to which these remains 

 belonged. The bones, tusks, &c. were numerous, and some 

 parts of the ice near the place where they were deposited, 

 had a smell of decayed animal matter, arising, no doubt, 

 from the decomposition of the flesh. The tusks are in their 



