Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 324
e been brought away in immense num- FOSSIL ELEPHANT* 321 bers, yet with no perceptible diminution of the stock; doubtlessmany of these animals were drifted dowu towards the arctic seasby the immense rivers which flow northward into the icy ocean.The subjoined figure represents the skeleton of the… … covered with reddish wool. The two tusks, together, weighedthree hundred and sixty pounds, and the head alone, four hundredand fourteen pounds ; the flesh of this antediluvian was in suchperfect preservation, that the dogs, white bears, wolves and foxesfed upon it. The eyes were well preserved, and…
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