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was inferred the animal had been destroyed in the height 
of seed time or towards the end of summer. The fronds of 
the fern were also very distinguishable, as also the tops of 
the boughs. The whole mass smelt very sour as it was dug, 
and occupied a space 34 feet by 20 or 22.* 
In 1772, Pallas obtained from Wiljuiskoi, in lat. 64, the 
carcase of a Rhinoceros, taken from a frozen sandbank. 
The body still retaining its corpulency was covered with its 
skin resembling leather, which emitted an odour like putrid 
flesh ; part of the skin was still covered with black and grey 
hairs, the eyelids and eyelashes still comparatively perfect. 
The head and one foot of this animal are now in the Imperial 
Museum at St. Petersburg. 
In 1806, the entire carcase of a Mammoth was obtained 
by Mr. Adams from a mass of ice in the mouth of the 
Lena, in lat. 70 ; the flesh of which was so well preserved 
that it was devoured by the Bears, Wolves, Foxes, . and 
other animals while it lay exposed on the bank. One of its 
ears was entire, and furnished with a tuft of hair ; the pupil 
of the eye was still to be distinguished, the lower lip had 
been gnawed by animals, the upper one was entirely gone, 
and the teeth exposed. The brain was still in the cranium, 
though apparently dried up; and the animal, which was a 
male, with a long mane on its neck, appeared so fat, 
according to the Tungusian hunters, that its abdomen hung 
down below the joints of its knees. The skin of this animal, 
which required ten people to carry, was thickly covered 
with reddish wool and coarse long black hair, from 10 to 
16 inches long, 36 lbs. of which was gathered from the 
wet sand bank where it was trodden in by the wild animals 
while devouring its flesh. The skeleton, which now adorns 
the Museum at St. Petersburgh, is 9 feet in height, 16 in 
length, without its tusks, which alone measured 9 feet 6 
* Philosophical Transactions, 1715, rol. vi., p. 199. 
