This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... 133 THE ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. PLATE v. According to several writers, the term Mammoth is of Tartar origin, and is derived from mama, which signifies the earth, and the natives of Siberia give the name of " bones of the Mammoth" to the remains of Elephants which are found in great abundance in that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... 133 THE ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. PLATE v. According to several writers, the term Mammoth is of Tartar origin, and is derived from mama, which signifies the earth, and the natives of Siberia give the name of " bones of the Mammoth" to the remains of Elephants which are found in great abundance in that country, believing that the Mammoth is an animal which lives underground at the present time. The Mammoth or Elephant's bones and tusks, are found throughout Russia, and more particularly in Eastern Siberia and the Arctic marshes. The tusks are found in great quantities, and are collected for the sake of profit, being sold to the turners in the place of the living ivory of Africa, and the warmer parts of Asia, to which it is not at all inferior. According to others it is derived from behemoth, mentioned in the book of Job, or mehemoth, an epithet which the Arabs commonly add to the word Elephant, to designate one which is very large. See Cuvier, Ann. du Mm Vol. viii. p. 45. Almost the whole of the ivory-turner's work made in Russia, is from the Siberian fossil ivory, and sometimes the tusks, having hitherto always been found in abundance, are exported from thence, being less in price than the recent. Although for a long series of years, very many thousands have been annually obtained, yet they are still collected every year in great numbers on the banks of the larger rivers of the Russian empire, and more particularly those of farther Siberia. They abound most of all in the Laichovian Isles, and on the shores of the Frozen Sea. In digging wells, or foundations for buildings, there are every where discovered the entire skeletons of Elephants, which are very well preserved in the frozen soil of that country. The instances of these bones being...
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