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competition with other herbivorous animals this primaeval giant 
“ went to the wall,” as the saying is. Ror does Lyell’s appeal to 
a change in climate, by which the cold of Siberia became too 
intense even for the Mammoth, seem quite satisfactory, espe- 
cially when we remember how very far north fir trees range 
(p. 279). 
The Mammoth, probably, was endowed with a fairly tough 
constitution. See Plate XLIX. In Siberia it fed on fir trees. In 
Kentucky it fared better, and was surrounded by such vegetation 
as now flourishes in that temperate region. In the valley of the 
Tiber (where also its remains are found), though during the 
Glacial period ” the temperature was, doubtless, lower than at 
present, we cannot imagine that an arctic climate prevailed. Thus 
we see that it was capable of flourishing in various and widely 
separated regions where the conditions of climate and food supply 
could hardly have been similar. 
Professor Boyd Dawkins, whose views we are adopting here,^ 
considers that the Mammoth was exterminated by man — a simple 
Fig. 108. — Figure of the Mammoth, engraved on Mammoth ivory by cave-men 
of La Madelaine, France. 
^ Popular Science Review, vol. vii. p. 275 (1868). 
