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where tliey 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 Winokurkaand 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 glossopetras, 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 tne 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, d8 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 Koly wan, on the bank of the Alei of the Ob ; in the high sand- 
banks (left) of the Ob, near Obdorsk (Siij.); in the liaraba, 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 Krasnojarsk (Messerschm.) ; on the lower Yenisei, 620 
versts* below Turucliansk, 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 
Nertschinsk ; 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 {lundra), 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. 
t A verst = six furlongs. 
