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CLIMATE OF THE MAMMOTH 



[Ch. X. 



herd of mammoths, returning from their summer 



the north, may have been surprised, while crossin 



by the sudden congelation of the waters. The 



Hue relates, in his Travels in Tibet in 1846, that, after many 



of his party had been frozen to death, the survivors pitched 



missionary 



Mour 



becomes the famous 



encampment ' some black shapeless objects ranged in file 



stream 



in form or distinctness was apparent ; nor was it till they 

 were quite close, that they recognised in them a troop of the 



3n, called Yak by the Tibel 

 y of them encrusted in the 

 swim across at the momen 



There were more 



No 



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themselves 



Their beautiful heads, 

 surmounted by huge horns, were still above the surface, but 

 their bodies were held fast in the ice, which was so trans- 



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distinguishable ; they looked 



swimming:, but the 



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Considering 



all the facts above 



enumei 



it 



seems 



reasonable to imagine that a large region in Central Asia 

 including, perhaps, the southern half of Siberia, enjoyed, at 

 no very remote period in the earth's history, a climate 



sufficiently mild 

 phants and rhi 



afford food for numerous herds of ele- 



rf species distinct fi 



those now 



living. It has often been taken for granted that herbivorous 



animals 



& 



Mr 



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)letely erroneous : — ' It has been derived/ he says, ' from 

 our acquaintance with India and the Indian islands, where 



accustomed 



with noble forests and 



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from 



jungles. But the 



Cape of Good Hope, although sterile and desert, are re- 

 markable for the number and great bulk of their indigenous 



* Conjectured to be the wild stock of Tartary, Tibet, and China (ch. xv. p. 

 Bos grunniens. 



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234), by M. Hue. Longman, 1852. 





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