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Notably, I was impi’essed by the fact, which, may be new 
also to many who, like myself, are not adepts in geology, that 
these shores were at some time surrounded by low-lying forests, 
filled with the very same creatures, both predacious and other- 
wise, to whose remains our attention has been directed. This 
is shown to have been the case by relics that have been occa- 
sionally met with, as well as by appearances of the forests when 
unusual stoiuns have laid bare the bottom of the sea. Mr. 
Parker, a member of the Torquay Natural History Society, 
obtained from some fishermen the tooth of an elephant, dredged 
up in the trawl on the southern side of Torbay. According to 
Dr. Falconer, it is “ exceedingly fresh-looking, and free from 
any incrustation of marine polyzoa , with which it must have 
got covered if it had lain long at the bottom of the sea.” 
Dr. Falconer says, “This Torbay peat-bed in which the above 
tooth, it is supposed, rested, indicates a subsidence of the land 
in Devonshire, then peopled with elephants of a very modern 
date, and long subsequent to the period of the raised beach 
which is so boldly developed along that part of the coast.” 
And according to Sir C. Lyell, “ the specimen is interesting 
as serving to establish the fact, that the mammoth survived 
when the surface of the region had already acquired its present 
configuration, so far as relates to the direction and depth of the 
valleys, in the bottom of one of which the peat alluded to was 
found.” 
Again, in 1869, 1871, and 1872, Mr. Hutchinson laid before 
the Devonshire Association molars of mammoth cast up by the 
waves on Sidmouth beach. In 1872 he also produced an un- 
usually large molar of the same species, found in the Sid by a 
young man wading up the river in search of lampreys ; and 
in 1873 he read to the same body a paper on “Submerged 
Forests and Mammoth teeth at Sidmouth,” when he described 
a series of carefully observed facts connected with a sub- 
merged forest laid bare on Sidmouth beach by the gales of 
the preceding winter. In this were found four mammoth 
molars. 
The Mammoth, Elephas primigenius (Blumenbacli), was, as 
we have seen, contemporary with man. I have in a previous 
paper shown a very well-designed representation of this 
creature, sketched on ivory from a living specimen. 
I shall now seek to show that the era of its co-existence with 
man is after all not so remote. The very name may lead us 
towards this conclusion, as men do not generally occupy them- 
selves with finding out names lor things with which they are 
unacquainted. (Compare Dr. Latham's Die. in loco.) 
I should derivo the word originally from tho Hebrew, 
