24 THE HAIRY MAMMOTH. 
«According to the assertion of the Tungusian discoverer, the animal, — 
was so fat, that its belly hung down below the joints of the knees. This — 
mammoth was a male, with a long mane on the neck; the tail was much 
mutilated, only eight out of twenty-eight caudal vertebre remaining; 
boscis was gone, but the places of the insertion of its muscles 
were visible on the skull. The skin, of which about three-fourths were 
saved, was of a dark gray color, covered with a reddish wool, and coarse 
long black hairs. The dampness of the spot where the animal had lain so 
long had in some degree destroyed the hair. The entire skeleton, from — 
the fore part of the skull to the end of the mutilated tail, page six- 
teen feet four inches; its height was nine feet four inches. The tusks 
measured along the curve nine feet six inches, and in a straight line jas 
the base to the point three feet seven inches. 
“Mr. Adams collected the bones, and had the peeps to find the 
other scapula, which had remained, not far off. He next detached the — 
skin on the side on which the animal had lain, which was Loa preserved; 
the weight of the skin was such that ten persons found great difficulty in “— 
transporting it to the shore. After this, the ground was dug in different 
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while devouring the flesh, and more than thirty-six pounds’ weight of 
hair was thus recovered. The tusks were purchased at Jatusk, and the 
whole expedited thence to St. = aa ue skeleton is now mounted 
in the museum of the Petropolitan Academ 
The Mammoth (Elephas barge Blum.), did not — 
dwell alone in Siberia. A hairy Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros — 
tichorhinus), which had a length of eleven and one-half — 
feet, was found frozen in Siberia near Wilui in 1777. 
ranged from England and Middle Europe to Siberia. ! 
the living species of elephants, the Mammoth not only 
browsed on the leaves of the spruce and fir, but ground 
beneath the broad surfaces of its immense grinders boughs 
of considerable thickness. It has been objected, despite 
its hairy coat, fitting it for the rigors of a Siberian winter 
that the Mammoth could not have been indigenous to 
the shores of the Arctic Ocean, since the vegetation was 50 
scanty; but Professor Owen sets aside such objections, 
observing that “forests of hardy trees and shrubs still grow 
upon the frozen soil of Siberia, and skirt the banks of the: 
Lena, as far north as latitude 60°. In Europe, arboreal veg- 













*Owen’s British Fossil Mammals and Birds. 

