THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. I. 



JANUARY, MDCCCXLIII. 



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Note on the Siberian Mammoth. Principally extracted from 

 Cuvier^s ' Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles,' 4to. i. 141, &c. 



" Triomphante des eaiix, du trepas et du temps, 

 La terre a cm revoir ses premiers habitans." 



Delille. 



It may be asserted, on the universal testimony of travellers and na- 

 turalists, that the whole of Asiatic Russia abounds in the remains of 

 these huge animals. Their bones and tusks are of so common occur- 

 rence, that the Siberians, in order to explain such a phenomenon, 

 have invented a tale that they belonged to animals which lived under- 

 ground in the manner of moles, and could not bear the light of day. 

 To these they gave the name of Mammont or Mammouth, as some 

 assert from the word marmna, which, in one of the Tatar dialects, 



