§19. MAMMOTH IMBEDDED IN ICE. 151 



19. Extinct Elephant, or Mammoth,* in ice. — There 

 are but two species of existing Elephants, namely, the 

 African, which ranges as far south as the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and the Asiatic, which is limited to within 31° 

 north latitude. Yet the remains not only of one, but of 

 "several extinct species of this family, occur all over Europe 

 and North America, and are imbedded in frozen gravel 

 and drift in 72° north latitude. They even abound in ice- 

 cliffs on the north-west angle of the American Continent, 

 near to Behring's Straits. 



The occurrence of innumerable relics of huge extinct 

 herbivorous mammalia, over vast regions of the icy zone, 

 where but few forms of animal life can now subsist, is a 

 fact of so much interest in every point of view, as to 



Lign 24.— Mammoth, or Elephas primigenitts ; found imbedded in 

 frozen gravel in siberia. 



(Twelve feet high, and sixteen feet long.) 



demand our earnest attention. For not only are the bones 

 and tusks found in a beautiful state of preservation, but 



malian remains have been found. See Professor Owen's History of 

 British Mammals; and my Medals of Creation, vol. ii. 

 * A Russian term applied to the fossil Elephant. 



