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etation extends ten degrees nearer the pole, and the dental 
organization of the Mammoth proves that it might have 
derived subsistence from the leafless branches of trees, in 
regions covered during a great part of the year with snow.” 
We may, with this learned author, assign the northern 
limit of trees, which even at some points reaches the seven- 
tieth parallel of latitude, as the bounds to the wanderings 
northward of the Siberian Mammoth. <A few years previous 
(1796), Cuvier announced that the bones of elephants found 
scattered through the Quarternary deposits, or Post-tertiary 
sands and clays, and the upper Tertiary deposits, belonged 
to a distinct, as well as extinct species. This fact suggested 
to him the idea of the existence of former worlds and succes- 
sive creations of species, and from this moment the science 
of Paleontology took its place in the sisterhood of sciences. 
The bones of the Mammoth and the mastodon, the rhino- 
ceros and hippopotamus were shown to belong to extinct 
species which formerly roamed over the surface of Southern 
and Middle Europe, and not, as his opponents contended, of 
luckless inmates of Roman menageries, or less likely, as 
others alleged, of heathen giants sixty feet high, who lived 
in the age of fable. 
Organized research, led by the great French Palzontolo- 
gist, established the fact that the Mammoth was indeed once 
an abundant animal in Europe. This huge elephant, with its» 
cousin, the mastodon (Mastodon angustidens), a still larger 
genus of elephants, differing in the structure of the teeth, was 
common in Middle and Southern Europe ; the species of both 
genera, like the elephants of the present day, enjoying a 
wide geographical range. The Mammoth ranged from the 
fortieth to the sixtieth parallel of latitude. 
Lartet, one of the founders of a new science, Anthropology, 
has brought forward additional proof of the former existence 
in Middle Europe of the Siberian Mammoth, and that from 
the most startling sources. 
In May, 1864, this pei perap with his countryman 
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