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was entire, with the exception of one of the forefeet. The spindyle, from the head to the os 

 coccygis, a shoulder blade, the pelvis, and the remains of the three extremities, were still 

 tightly attached by the ligaments of the joints, and by strips of skin on the exterior side 

 of the carcass. The head was covered with a dry skin ; one of the ears, well preserved, 

 was furnished with a tuft of bristles. The eyes were also preserved, and the ball of the 

 left eye could be distinguished. The tip of the under lip had been eaten away, and the 

 upper part being destroyed, exhibited the teeth. The brain was still in the cranium, but 

 it appeared dry. The parts least damaged were a forefoot and a hind one, covered with 

 skin, and having still the sole attached. According to the assertion of the chief, the 

 animal had been so large and well fed, that its belly hung down below the knee joints. 

 This animal was a male, with a long mane at its neck; but it had no tail, and no trunk. 

 The skin, three fourths of which Mr. Adams took with him, is a deep gray, and covered 

 with a reddish hair, and black bristles, and was of such extraordinary weight, that ten 

 persons moved it with great difficulty. The entire carcass (the bones of which he col- 

 lected on the spot, and the tusks he afterwards procured) is about nine feet high and 

 fourteen feet long, English measure, from the tip of the nose to the coccyx, without, 

 however, comprehending the two horns, or tusks, each of which is a toise and a half long, 

 and both together weigh four hundred pounds. The head alone weighs four hundred and 

 sixty pounds. Mr. Adams collected from the sand bank more than forty pounds of the 

 bristles which the while bears might have trodden into the wet ground on devouring the 

 flesh. Some of the hair was presented to the Museum of Natural History of Paris, and 

 on examination it was found to consist of three distinct kinds ; one of these is stiff black 

 bristles two feet in length; auother is thinner bristles of coarse flexible hair, of a reddish 

 brown colour, and the third is a coarse reddish brown wool, which grew among the roots 

 of the long hair; affording, according to Cuvier, an undeniable proof that this animal has 

 belonged to a race of elephants inhabiting a cold region. See an Account of a Journey 

 to the Frozen Seas, and of the Discovery of the Remains of a Mammoth, by Michael 

 Adams of St. Petersburgh, in the 29th volume of Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine ; 

 and Cuvier's Essay on the Theory of the Earth, translated by Jameson. 



Mr. Adams was persuaded, from the presence of the coccyx, which finishes the ver- 

 tebral column, that this animal had a very short and thick tail, like its feet. He also states 

 that its teeth are harder, heavier, and more twisted in a different direction, than the teeth 

 of an elephant ; that he has seen some of their tusks, which formed, in their curvature, 

 three fourths of a circle, and one of the length of two toises and a half, two feet thick 

 near the root, and two hundred and eighty pounds weight ; that the animal is covered 

 >7ith a very thick hair through the whole body, and 1 ~3 a long mane upon its neck ; and 



