ORDER UNGULATA. 



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found with the dried flesh, skin, and hair preserved ; the skeleton of 

 one of these specimens, with portions of the skin still adhering to it, 

 being preserved in the Museum at St Petersburg (fig. 1288). The 

 Mammoth was essentially northern in its distribution, apparently not 

 passing southwards of a line drawn through the Pyrenees, Alps, the 



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northern shores of the Caspian, Lake Baikal, Kamschatka, and the 

 Stanovi Mountains. Its remains occur in the Norfolk "Forest-bed," 

 and from this date the species existed right through the glacial epoch, 

 and was well known to the primitive human inhabitants of Northern 

 Europe, as is testified by its portrait drawn on a fragment of its own 

 tusk by one of these early hunters. 



