148 ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 
“ On arriving with the Mammoth at Borchaya, 
our first care was to separate the remaining flesh 
and ligaments from the bones, which were then 
packed up. When I arrived at Jakutsk, I had 
the good fortune to re-purchase the tusks, and 
from thence expedited the whole to St Peters- 
burgh.”* 
The skeleton is now put up in the Museum of 
the Academy, and the skin still remains attached 
to the head and the feet. 
The Mammoth is described by M. Cuvier as a 
different species from either of the two Elephants 
living at the present day, the African or the 
Indian. It is distinguished from them by the 
teeth, and by the size of the tusks, which are 
from ten to fifteen feet long, much curved, and 
have a spiral turn outwards. The alveoli of the 
tusks are also larger and are produced farther. 
The neck is shorter, the spinal processes larger, 
all the bones of the skeleton are stronger, and the 
scabruous surfaces for the insertion of the muscles 
more prominent than in the other species. The 
skin being covered with thick hair, induces M. 
Cuvier to consider that it was the inhabitant of a 
cold region. The form of the head is also diffe- 
rent from that of the living species, as well as 
the arrangement of the lines of the enamel of the 
teeth : but for these and other particulars, see the 
Mem. of Imp. Academy of Petersburgh, vol. v. 
