Description of the Remains of a Mammoth . ££9 
terwards heaped upon the shores of the Frozen Sea. 
This last kind they call Noahsohina. I have seen in 
great thaws, large pieces of earth detach themselves from 
the hillocks, mix with the water, and form thick and 
muddy torrents which roll slowly towards the sea* This 
earth forms in different places lumps, which sink in 
among the ice. The block of ice where the mammoth 
was found, was from thirty-five to forty toises high ; and, 
according to the account of the Toungouses, the animal 
when first discovered w as seven toises from the surface of 
the ice. 
The whole shore was as it were covered with the 
most variegated and beautiful plants produced on the 
shores of the Frozen Sea; but they were only two 
inches high. Around the carcase we saw a multi 
tude of other plants, such as the Cineraria aquatica and 
some species of Pedicularis , not yet known in natural his 
tory. 
While waiting for the boats from Terra Firma, for 
which I had sent some Cossacs, we exerted all our en 
deavours to erect a monument to perpetuate the memory 
of this discovery and of my visit. We raised, according 
to the custom of these countries, two crosses with anal© 
gous inscriptions. The one was upon the rock of ice. 
forty paces from the shelf from which this mammoth had 
slid, and the other was upon the very spot where we 
found it. Each of these crosses is six French toises 
high, and constructed in a manner ^olid enough to brave 
the severity of many ages. The Toungouses have given 
to the one the name of the cross of the Ambassador, and 
to the other that of the cross of the Mammoth. The emi- 
nence itself received the name of Selichaeta or Mammoth 
mountain. This last will perhaps some day or other af- 
ford some traveller the means of calculating with sufii 
