Encyclopedia of Natural And Artificial Wonders And Curiosities Including a Ful
Encyclopedia of Natural And Artificial Wonders And Curiosities Including a Ful
John Platts
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J;. , I 'if'' " The skeleton is now put up in the museum of the Acndemv, and the skin still remains attached to the head and feet. Tlie mammoth is described by M, Cuvier as adifl'erent species fVciu either of the two elephants living at the present day, tne African or the Indian. It is distinguished from them bv liie teeth, and by the size of the tusks, which are from ten to (U- teen feet long, much curved, and have a spiral turn outwards. The alveali of the tusks are also larger, and are protr...uded tiir- ther. The neck is shorter, the spinal processes larger, all the bones of the skeleton are stronger, and the scabrous 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 different from that of the living species, as well as the arrangement of the lines of the enamel of the teeth. " The mammoth more nearly resembles the Indian than the African species of elephant.
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