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ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 
Almost the whole of the ivory-turner’s work 
made in Russia, is from the Siberian fossil ivory, 
and sometimes the tusks, having hitherto always 
been found in abundance, are exported from 
thence, being less in price than the recent. 
Although for a long series of years, very many 
thousands have been annually obtained, yet they 
are still collected every year in great numbers on 
the banks of the larger rivers of the Russian 
pmpire, and more particularly those of farther 
Siberia. They abound most of all in the Laich- 
ovian Isles, and on the shores of the Frozen Sea. 
In digging wells, or foundations for buildings, 
there are every where discovered the entire 
skeletons of Elephants, which are very well pre- 
served in the frozen soil of that country. The 
instances of these bones being found in the above 
mentioned regions, and their great numbers, are 
so frequently stated by Russian travellers, that it 
may be fairly contended that the number of 
Elephants now living on the globe, is greatly 
inferior to the number of those whose bones are 
remaining in Siberia. 
It is particularly to be noticed, that in every 
climate, and under every latitude, from the range 
of mountains dividing Asia, to the frozen shores 
of the Northern Ocean, Siberia abounds with 
Mammoth bones. The best fossil ivory is found 
in the countries near to the Arctic circle, and in 
