132 THE ELEPHANT OF AFRICA. 
An account of the fossil Pachydermcs would 
lead us beyond our limits, besides encroaching upon 
the contents of a volume, which we propose to 
devote to a consideration of ancient Mammalia, 
and the huge reptilian forms ; but we cannot 
omit here a notice of the animal discovered at the 
mouth of the Lena, and of the Mastodon, as 
shewing the form of the proboscis bearing 
animals of the New World. The account of the 
first we transcribe entire, being of great interest, 
from the perfect and almost fresh state in 
which the animal was discovered, and exhibiting 
a different hairy covering when compared with 
the living animals we are now acquainted with. 
We add a reduced plate of the figure which 
accompanies it. 
