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HISTORICAL PALAEONTOLOGY. 



hair more than a foot in length. The teeth of the Mammoth 

 (fig. 267) are of the type of those of the existing Indian Ele- 

 phant, and are found in immense numbers in certain localities. 



The Mammoth was essentially northern in its distribution, 

 never passing south of a line drawn through the Pyrenees, the 

 Alps, the northern shores of the Caspian, Lake Baikal, Kam- 



