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ties of the length of an archine, which were also found 
upon the head, the ears, and the neck of the animal, 
must neeessarily have belonged either to the mane or to 
the tail. Schoumachoff maintains that he never saw any 
trunk belonging to the animal, but it is probable that it 
was carried off by wild beasts ; for it would be inconceiva- 
ble that the mammoth could eat with so small a snout, 
and with such enormous tusks, if we do not allow it to 
have had a trunk. The mammoth, according to these 
indications, would consequently belong to the elephant 
species, and M. Blumenbach, in his system, actually 
calls it Elephas primcevus . 
To conclude .—The mammoth in my possession is 
quite different from that found near New York, which, 
from the description given in the Journal called the 
Museum des Wundervollen , had carnivorous teeth.* 
M. Cuvier has proved in a most satisfactory manner, 
that the mammoth is a particular species of antediluvian 
animals. 
Another question still remains to be decided. Has the 
mammoth originally inhabited the countries of the pole, or 
those of the tropics? The thick hair with which this 
animal is covered seems to indicate, that it belonged to 
the northern regions to this it does not seem reasona- 
ble to start objections, although several writers have done 
so : but what remains inexplicable is, to ascertain, How 
came the mammoth to be buried in the ice? Perhaps 
the peninsula of Tumut has been slowly formed. In 
course of time a general inundation must have covered 
all the north part of the globe, and caused the death of 
this animal ; which, after having floated for some time 
among the masses of ice, was finally driven by a gust of 
wind upon the sand-bank not far from the shore. The 
* See Philosophical Magazine, vol. xiv, p. 162, 228, 332. 
