Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . Castoroides Oliioensis. LECTURES OX I [Iappis])urg in Norfolk, England. The size to ;vliicjithey occasionally attained is indicated by Fig. 51, wliicli I-- M. Elepbas primigciiius. is one-fifth tlie natural size. The original, now in theWard Mnsenm, Rochester, Aveighs fourteen pounds. l>ut Northern Asia seems to have been the home ofthe mammoth. There is scarcely a river in which theirremains have not been found ; and even the islands inthe ic} sea north of Siberia abound with them. Bel-ling, a Russian, who visited t
Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . Castoroides Oliioensis. LECTURES OX I [Iappis])urg in Norfolk, England. The size to ;vliicjithey occasionally attained is indicated by Fig. 51, wliicli I-- M. Elepbas primigciiius. is one-fifth tlie natural size. The original, now in theWard Mnsenm, Rochester, Aveighs fourteen pounds. l>ut Northern Asia seems to have been the home ofthe mammoth. There is scarcely a river in which theirremains have not been found ; and even the islands inthe ic} sea north of Siberia abound with them. Bel-ling, a Russian, who visited them, says of one, All theisland nearest to the mainland, which is about thirty-sixleagues in length, except three or four small rockymountains, is a mixture of sand and ice ; so that whenthe thaw sets in, and its banks begin to fall, many mam-moth bones are found. All the isle is formed of thebones of this extraordinary animah of the horns andskulls of buffal^es or an animal which resembles thom,and of some rhinoceroses horns. i\Iost of the ixory ]bv the civilized world is obtained from the mammoth 17 2o8 LECTURES ON nEOLOGY. tusks of Siberia. In the year 1844, sixteen thoiisarnpounds of teeth and tusks of mammoths were o
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