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CLIMATE OF THE MAMMOTH 



[Ch. X. 



Eobert Everest observes, that tlie greatest elevation at which 

 it is found in a wild state is in the north-west Himalaya, at a 



Nahun 



mean 



may 



Fahrenheit, and the difference be- 



summer 



month of January averaging 45°, and June, the hottest month. 



91° F * 

 More 



writing in 1858, announced 



North 



annexed to the 'Russian Empire, no less than 34 out of 58 



identical with European species. 



living quadrupeds are 



Amon 



ins 



Bengal tiger, 



sometimes 



42°, subsists chiefly on the flesh of the reindeer, while on the 

 other hand, the small tailless hare or pika occasionally wan- 



from 



. Mexico as far north as Ke 



In America, the jaguar has been seen wandering 



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the opposite direction as far as 42° S. in South America,— a 

 latitude which corresponds to that of the Pyrenees in the 

 northern hemisphere. § The range of the puma is still wider, 

 for it roams from the equator to the Straits of Magellan 

 often seen at Port Famine, in lat. 53° 38' S. When the Cape 

 of Good Hope was first colonised, the two-horned African 

 rhinoceros was found in lat. 34° 29' S., accompanied by the 

 elephant, hippopotamus, and hyaena, 

 all these species towards the south was arrested by the ocean; 

 but if the African continent had been prolonged still farther, 

 and the land had been of moderate elevation, it is highly 

 probable that they might have extended their range to a 



Here the mig 



om 



Now 



southern borders of Siberia, or skirt the snows of the Hnna- 



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laya, and if the puma can reach the fifty-third degree o 



* Everest on Climate of Foss. Eleph., 

 Journ. of Asiat. Soe., No. 25, p. 21. 



% Kafinesoue, Atlantic Journ., p. * 8 - 



Darwin's Journal of Travels U» 



t Nat. Hist. Rev., vol. i. p. 12, 1861. South America, &c, 1832 to 1836, in 



Antiquity of Man, p. 158. 



Voyage of ll.M.S. Beagle, p. 1<"> 9 - 





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