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portioned to the magnitude of the head and the 

 weight of the tusks or defenses. Besides, these 

 spines are so long, and the form of the ribs such, 

 that unless we suppose them covered with a su- 

 perfluous quantity of flefli, the back of the ani- 

 mal could not have been round like that of the 

 elephant, but (harp like that of a hog. 



As the inhabitant of a cold climate, it is pro- 

 bable the Mammoth v/as clothed with hair or 

 wool, which in most situations was quickly liable 

 to decay. The only instance of hair being 

 found with the remains of this animal, occurred 

 in a morass belonging to Mr. A. Golden, in the 

 neighbourhood where this skeleton was found. 

 The hair was coarse, long and brown, a large 

 mass of it together, and so rotten that, after a 

 few days exposure to the air, it fell into a 

 powder. 



The skeleton of the Mammoth *, merely as 

 a skeleton, is certainly entitled to some atten- 

 tion ; as the skeleton of a very large and non* 



* Strahlenberg, in his Historico-Geographical Description, ob- 

 serves> that the Russian name is Mammoth^ which is a corruption 

 from Memoihf a word derived from the Arabic Mehemot, signifying 

 the same as the Behemot of Job. This word is applied to any animal 

 of extraordinary size. 



