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MAMMOTH REMAINS. 
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known in the capital of Eussia some time after the conquest of 
Siberia. 
I have not, indeed, been successful during the voyage of the 
Vega, in making any remarkable discovery that would throw 
light on the mode of life of the mammoth^ but as we now sail 
forward between shores probably richer in such remains than any 
RESTORED FORM OF THE MAMMOTH. 
After Jukes, The Shident’s Manual of Geology, Ediuburgh, 1862. 
other on the surface of the globe, and over a sea, from whose 
bottom our dredge brought up, along with pieces of driftwood, 
half-decayed portions of mammoth tusks, and as the savages 
with whom we came in contact, several times offered us very 
fine mammoth tusks or tools made of mammoth ivory, it may 
1 As will be stated in detail further on, there were found during the 
Vega expedition very remarkable sub-fossil animal remains, not of the 
mammoth, however, but of various different species of the whale. 
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