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we repeat, do the mammalian remains increase 1 , until at length whole skeletons 
have been found entire, some with all the flesh and hair adherent. Unwilling, 
as we always were, to adopt the idea of Cuvier and other eminent geologists, 
that entire mammoths with their skin were killed and preserved by a sudden 
change of climate, we now distinctly advocate the views of Lyell and Humboldt, 
that these creatures were the denizens of countries near to which their bones are 
found 2 . 
The single fact of the very wide diffusion of mammoth bones over the surface 
of such enormous regions of the earth, would in itself lead us to believe, that those 
creatures had really been long inhabitants of such countries, living and dying there 
for ages, whilst their final destruction may have resulted from aqueous debacles 
dependent on oscillations of the land, the elevation of ridges, and the formation 
of much local detritus. In the case of the extinct species of Carnivora, it has been 
happily and successfully shown by Dr. Buckland, that for long ages they inhabited 
the caves of the British Islands. Again, in low tracts of Yorkshire, where tran- 
quil lacustrine deposits have occurred, their bones (even those of the lion) have 
been found so perfectly unbroken and unworn in the fine gravel in which they are 
heaped up (as at Market Weighton) 3 , that few persons would be disposed to deny, 
that such feline and other animals once roamed over the British Isles as well as 
1 Sujeff, the associate of Pallas, found these mammalian remains in great abundance on the banks of 
the Obe, near the mouth of the Pittiarski and 150 versts south of Berezof. (Pallas, vol. iv. p. 50.) 
* For some time the frozen mammoth found by Adams and deposited in the Imperial Museum at St. 
Petersburg was an unique specimen. Since then two other examples have been reported, and one of 
these is, we are informed by Mr. Frears, on the point of arriving at the museum of Moscow. The con- 
servation of the skin is, indeed, not peculiar to the mammoth, but also applies to the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, 
portions of whose skin and hair are still adherent to the bones of a fine specimen of that animal preserved 
in the Museum of Natural History at St. Petersburg, and deposited there by Pallas. On referring per- 
sonally to Baron Humboldt since the publication of his work on Central Asia, he expressed his opinion, 
that the perfect conservation of the skin, mustachios and whole body of Prince Menzikoff, buried 100 
years ago in Siberia and accidentally disinterred, ought to satisfy us respecting the conservation of the 
mammoth by simple reference to the climate of that country. 
* The researches of the Rev. W. V. Harcourt and of Mr. H. E. Strickland are most important in 
showing (the former at Market Weighton, the latter at Cropthorne on the Avon) the eo-existence of the 
mammoth. Bos Urus, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, lion, bear, tiger, hyaena, deer, & c. (all of species distinct 
from those in existence), with land and freshwater shells, nearly all of which are identical with species 
now living in Britain ; thus proving, that no very great change of climate has taken place since these 
animals were contemporaneous (see Proceedings of the Geol. Soc., 1834, Silurian System, p. 554, and Phil. 
Mag., Sept. 1829 and Jan. 1830). 
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