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river Parama and its tributaries, where the greater part 

 of the remains of those enormous animals which have 

 lately been brought to London, have been found, usu- 

 ally sunk in the mud or alluvial soil. The above animal 

 is not thought to have a trunk like the elephant, 

 the length of the vertebrae seeming to prove that 

 its neck was sufficiently long to allow of its feeding 

 without it. The circle of bones which extend 

 from haunch to haunch, is upwards of five feet in 

 breadth ; yet the animal is thought not to have been 

 more than seven feet in height, which is short compared 

 to its breadth : but the processes of the bones in the 

 extremities indicate great muscular strength. This 

 case contains also the Cranium, Jaws, Teeth, and 

 Tusks of the Elephant, called by the early writers the 

 Mammoth. Between these cases is to be seen the Fos- 

 sil Human Skeleton, imbedded in lime-stone, brought 

 from Guadaloupe by Admiral Lord Cochrane. 



The upright Glass Cases on each side of the north- 

 ern entrance into the gallery, contain a collection of 

 Fossil Vegetable Remains, with coloured casts in plas- 

 ter of Paris, that their forms might be more distinctly 

 perceived. 



Against the wall to the right, on entering the gallery, 

 is deposited in glass cases a collection of Minerals from 

 the Hartz Mountains. 



The Sculptured Tortoise, in the middle of the gallery, 

 was found on the banks of the Jumna in Hindoostan ; 

 it is wrought out of nephrite or Jade. 



Between the cases 6 and 7, under a glass cover, is a 

 specimen of Native Silver from Norway ; and on the 

 left hand, on entering the gallery, a specimen of Sand- 

 stone from Saxony, marked with the supposed tracts of 

 unknown animals ; and underneath is a specimen of 

 Entrochal Marble from Derbyshire. 



The Paintings arranged round the gallery having the 

 names of the individuals of whom they are representa- 

 tions thereto attached, it will be useless for us to de- 

 scribe. Those at the lower end of the gallery are por- 

 traits of Newton, Bacon, Shakspeare, Pope, Locke, 



