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where they have been discovered in an argillaceous bed in digging for 

 a dam ; on the Ik of the Kama ; on the bank of the Ufa, the Belaja, the 

 Dioma, and in the Belaja itself, as well as in many Kama rivers of the 

 Government of Kazan. (Kanz.) 2. In Siberia. Exhumed elephant-teeth 

 and ivory in many places of the eastern or Siberian Ural (P.). Elephant 

 bones, on the right bank of Ural river, near Kalmukowa (P.) ; on the 

 lower Tura, and ports in many places ; on the Neiwa of the Tura ; on the 

 banks of the Winokurka and Suworifch of the Iset (P.). Greatly -destroyed 

 elephant-bones of a bluish and blackish colour, in the bluish sand-marl, on 

 the Atasch of the Iset, near Taimilskaja Sloboda (P.). An elephant jaw- 

 bone, with glossopetrse, on the bank of the Tura, noticed by Haller ; 

 another with ammonites from another place in Werchoturean Ural, was 

 sent to the Academy by Councillor Tatischew. An elephant-tooth was 

 found in the gold mountain of Beresow, 6 feet below the surface, in clay ; 

 and Hermann considers this the highest place where these bones are found ; 

 the banks of the upper Yenisei seem, however, to be far higher. Elephant- 

 bones, in many places of the banks of Tobol. Kotten, bluish elephant- 

 bones and teeth, on the bank of the Ischim, near Petri Pawloskoi Krepost, 

 also on the Karasu and Wagran of the Ischim. An elephant-tusk, 10 feet 

 long, from the bank of the Ischim (P.). A hip-bone, 48 poods weight,* on 

 the bank of the Irtysch, near Oresk (P.). 



Elephant-bones, in many places on the bank of the Irtysch, over Omsk; 

 in the Kolywan, on the bank of the Alei of the Ob ; in the high sand- 

 banks (left) of the Ob, near Obdorsk (Suj.) ; in the Baraba, on the clay- 

 bank, in clay (P.). A rather rotten hip-bone in the Tom-Tschumysch 

 (right) of the Ob, where it was discovered in digging for a dam (G.) ; in many 

 places on the banks of the Tom. An elephant-tusk 5^ feet long, on the 

 Yenisei, near Krasnoyarsk (Messerschm.) ; on the lower Yenisei, 620 

 versts* below Turuchansk, near Salakino Simowie, at the head of the 

 gulf. Elephant-bones on the Angara and the Upper Tunguska (Comment. 

 Petrop.). An elephant-skeleton, with a skull weighing 152, a tooth weigh- 

 ing 160, and a thigh-bone weighing 25 lb., on the Wilvi of the Lena (Mes- 

 sersch.) ; in many places on the banks of the Lena; on the Argun, in 

 JSTertschinsk ; on the rivers of the Polar Sea, Chatanga, Indigirka, and 

 Kolyma, also on the Anadyr of the Baltic Sea (Comment. Petrop.) ; in 

 the Arctic turf-fields on the Gulf of Kariss of the Polar Sea (Suj.) ; in the 

 environs of the Lena and Wilvi, on the lower Indigirka, and many other 

 places (G.). 



A rhinoceros-skull was discovered in the Obstschei Syrt above the 

 Schesma, others in many of the Kazan rivers. 



A rhinoceros-skull on the Ob, near Obdorsk, in Siberia ; on the Tschitoi 

 of the Selenga, in Dauria ; on the Kinga rivers in Irkuzk, 30 versts of 

 Irkurzk (Laxm.) ; in the turf-fields (tundra), near the Lena (Gm.) ; on 

 the Lena, near the Swestoi, 200 versts of the ice-sea (Gm.) ; on the 

 Anadyr, in turf-fields (P ). A rhinoceros- skull with two horns on the bank 

 of the Indigirka, near Saschiwersk, where also two nose-horns without 

 the skull were found. 



A rhinoceros-head, with uncorrupted, partly still bloody and uninjured 

 skin, was discovered a few years ago on Wilvi of the Lena, in a frozen 

 turf-field (tundra), not very deep under the grass. The body was not 

 found ; it may perhaps be still lying in some other place of the ever- 

 frozen marshes, or perhaps it may, on its being embedded, not have been suf- 

 ficiently covered against the action of the atmosphere, and thus the other 



* A pood = 40 lb. 



f A verst = six furlongs. 



