ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 
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« The parts least injured are one fore foot and 
one hind foot ; they are covered with skin, and 
have still the sole attached. According to the 
assertion of the Tungusian chief, the animal was 
so fat and well fed, that its belly hung down 
below the joints of the knees. This Mammoth 
was a male, with a long mane on the neck, but 
without tail or proboscis.* The skin, of which I 
possess three-fourths, is of a dark gray colour, 
covered with a reddish wool and black hairs. 
The dampness of the spot, where the animal had 
lain so long, had in some degree destroyed the 
hair. The entire carcass, of which I collected 
the bones on the spot, is four archines (nine feet 
four inches) high, and seven archines (sixteen 
feet four inches) long, from the point of the nose 
to the end of the tail, without including the 
tusks, which are a toise and a half f in length ; 
the two together weighed three hundred and sixty 
pound avoirdupois ; the head alone, without the 
tusks, weighs eleven poods and a half, four 
hundred and fourteen pound avoirdupois. 
“ The principal object of my care was to sepa- 
rate the bones, to arrange them, and put them up 
* The places of the insertion of the muscles of the 
proboscis are visible on the skull. It was probably devoured 
as well as the end of the tail. 
t Nine feet six inches measuring along the curve. The 
distance from the base or root of the tusk to the point, is 
three feet seven inches. 
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