. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. y- ijj COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH. Restoration by R. B. Horsfall after W. B. Scott from skeleton in AmericanMuseum of Natural History. Warren Mastodon, is, with palaeonlolooists, literally a house-hold specimen, for it was the first and most perfect skeletonto be brought prominently into notice. The many deep andsoft bogs that lie between the north and south granite ridges 132 ELEPHANTS of southeastern New York undoubtedly still entomb thefossil remains of many an undiscovered Mastodon, hermet-ical
. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. y- ijj COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH. Restoration by R. B. Horsfall after W. B. Scott from skeleton in AmericanMuseum of Natural History. Warren Mastodon, is, with palaeonlolooists, literally a house-hold specimen, for it was the first and most perfect skeletonto be brought prominently into notice. The many deep andsoft bogs that lie between the north and south granite ridges 132 ELEPHANTS of southeastern New York undoubtedly still entomb thefossil remains of many an undiscovered Mastodon, hermet-ically sealed and awaiting the steam-shovel of the modernexcavator. The Mammoths of North America were true elephants,and three species are known. The Imperial Mammoth {Elephas imperator) was a great,long-haired giant of giants; for at the shoulders he attainedthe amazing height of 13 feet 6 inches! In the museum ofthe Chicago Academy of Sciences there stands the skeletonof a Mammoth that appears to have had a living height of atleast 13 feet. Tusks of Mammoths have been found in Alaskameasuring, so it i
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