136 ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 
The preservation of the flesh of the Mammoth 
through a long series of ages, is not to be wondered 
at, when we recollect the constant cold and frost 
of the climate in which it was found. It is a 
common practice to preserve meat and berries 
through the winter by freezing them, and to send 
fish, and all other provisions annually at that 
period, from the most remote of the northern 
provinces, to St Petersburgh and other parts of 
the empire. 
I shall now proceed to the account which Mr 
Adams has published of his journey to the Icy 
Sea, and to the place where the carcass of the 
Mammoth, whose skeleton is now to be seen in 
our museum, was found lying on the sand and 
ice. It was first published in the Journal du 
Nord, printed at St Petersburgh, in 1807, under 
the title of “ Relation abrege d’ un Voyage a la 
mer Glaciale, et decouverte des restes d’un 
Mammouth,” and afterwards in some German 
ephemerides, but as they are now scarce, I shall 
cite his own words. 
“ I should reproach myself if I longer delayed 
the publication of a zoological discovery, which 
is highly interesting in its detail, since it makes 
us acquainted with a species of animal, whose 
existence was a subject of dispute among our 
best informed naturalists. 
“ I was told at Jakutsk by the merchant Popoff, 
chief of the body of merchants of that town, that 
