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the climate of the Siberian lowlands, at the period when the 

 itinct quadrupeds were entombed. One elephant was found 

 the Tas, between the Obi and Yenesei, near the Arctic circle, 

 about lat. 66° 30' N., with some parts of the flesh in so 

 perfect a state that the bulb of the eye is now. preserved in 

 the Museum at Moscow. Another carcass, together with a 

 young individual of the same species, was met with in the 



' " " ~ ' " ' ■""-"■" ■"" n ear the river Taimyr, 



same yeai 



1843 



in lat. 



75° 



15' N 



with the flesh decayed. It was imbedded in strata of clay and 

 sand, with erratic blocks, at about fifteen feet above the level 



of the sea. 



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trunk of a larch-tree (Pinus larix) , the same wood as that now 

 carried down in abundance by the Taimyr to the Arctic Sea. 

 There were also associated marine fossil shells of living north- 



ern species 



moreover 



characteristic of the 



drift or glacial deposits of Scotland and other parts of Europe. 

 Among these, Nucula pygmcea, Tellina calcarea, My a truncata, 

 and Saxicava rugosa were conspicuous. 



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according to Tilesius, thousands of fossil tusks have been 

 collected and used in turning ; yet others are still procured 



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and sold in great plenty. 



bones still left in Northern Russia must greatly 



number all the elephants now living on the globe. 



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Straits, in Eschscholtz Bay, in Russian America, lat. 66° N. 

 As the cliffs waste away by the thawing of the ice, tusks and 

 bones fall out, and a strong odour of animal matter is exhaled 



from the mud.* 



Intelligence has been received at St. Petersburg (from an 

 exploring expedition now in progress, 1866), that in the flat 



mouths of the Yenesei 



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mammoths 



most of them 



hair, have been found. The heads of 



to have been turned towards the south. The preservation of 



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See Dr. Buckland's description of these bones, Appen. to Beechy's Voyage. 



