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and Acadian faunæ, on the deep water-banks off the New 
England coast, are thus shown to be relics of the northward 
migration of these faunæ.— To be concluded. 

THE HAIRY MAMMOTH. 
BY A. 8. PACKARD, JR., M. D. 

In 1799, Schumachoff, a Tungusian hunter, discovered at 
the mouth of the river Lena a shapeless mass frozen in the 
ice. But not until two years after, 1801, when the ice had 
so melted that the tusks and one side of the animal were 
disclosed, did he know upon what a monster he had stum- 
bled. Returning to his home on the borders of Lake On- 
coul, he told his family of the strange creature entombed in 
the ice. They were seized with consternation, for in the days 
of yore some hunter had found on this peninsula the same 
sort of animal, and his family had all died soon afterwards. 
Death, however, did not invade the household. The god 
of mammon reigned instead. On recovering from the nearly 
fatal sickness into which his superstitious fears had thrown 
him, our enterprising ivory-hunter, led on by the greed of 
gain, revisited the Mammoth Golgotha, and in March, 1804, 
favored by the warm weather, beheld the gigantic carcass, 
now become historic, reposing free from its icy tomb on the 
sands of the Lena. He sold the tusks for fifty roubles, and 
the carcass was left to the tender mercies of the people 
about, who fed their dogs on the flesh, while “wild beasts, 
such as white bears, wolves, wolverenes, and foxes also fed 
upon it, and the traces of their footsteps were seen around.” 
The skeleton remained entire, except one foreleg, which 
some unusually enterprising white bear probably lugged off. 
essor R. Owen, whose account we have been using, 
states that, — 
