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" 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... "
The Naturalist's Library - Page 133
by William Jardine - 1836
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...d'Hittmre Naiurelle, and has been re-publUhed in his Recherchet tar lei Ossemcns fossiles de Quadrupedes.] ACCORDING to several writers, the term Mammoth is...in the place of the living ivory of Africa and the wanner parts of Asia, to which it is not at all inferior. Almost the whole of the ivory-turners' work...
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Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising ..., Volume 1

Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...Elephant, found in the Ice at the Mouth of the River Lena, in Siberia. 36. Mammoths' and elephants' bones and tusks are found throughout Russia, and more...the warmer parts of Asia, to which it is not at all inl'erior. Towards th« end of the month of August, when the fishing season in the Lena is over, the...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 4

1822 - 666 pages
...ice, and retained its flesh and all its softer parts, in a state of perfect freshness. These bones or tusks are found throughout Russia, and more particularly...Marshes. The tusks are found in great quantities, and the ivory of them is equal to that of the living Elephants of Asia and Africa. Although for a long...
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Remarks on certain parts of mr. Granville Penn's Comparative estimate of the ...

Granville Penn - 1826 - 102 pages
...bodies, bones, and tusks of the Mammoth. " The Mammoth or Elephant's bones and tusks," we are informed, "•are found throughout Russia, and more particularly in Eastern Siberia and the Arctic Marshes *." And we know that they are, together with, the teeth, discovered in the Diluvium of our own, as...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 4

1822 - 666 pages
...a state of perfect freshness, hose bones or tusks are found irougliout Russia, and more partiularly in eastern Siberia, and the Arctic Marshes. The tusks are found in great quantities, and the ivory of them is equal to that of the living Elephants of Asia and Africa. Although for a long...
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Turning and Mechanical Manipulation: Intended as a Work of General ..., Volume 1

Charles Holtzapffel - 1843 - 496 pages
...inhabitant of rivers and marshy places. The circular teeth are covered on their outer surfaces with a * " The Mammoth, or Elephant's bones and tusks, are found...parts of Asia, to which it is not at all inferior." " Almost the whole of the ivory-turner's work, made in Russia, is from the Siberian fossil ivory ;...
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The Wesleyan methodist association magazine, Volume 7

1844 - 546 pages
...epithet which the Arabs commonly add to the word elephant, to designate one which is very large. These bones and tusks are found throughout Russia, and more...marshes. The tusks are found in great quantities, and the ivory of them is equal to that of the living elephants of Asia and Africa. Although for a long...
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Turning and Mechanical Manipulation: Intended as a Work of General ..., Volume 1

Charles Holtzapffel - Industrial arts - 1846 - 498 pages
...inhabiting rivers and marshy places. The circular hippopotamus teeth are covered exteriorly with a * " The Mammoth, or Elephant's bones and tusks, are found...parts of Asia, to which it is not at all inferior." " Almost the whole of , the ivory-turner's work, made in Russia, is from the Siberian fossil ivory...
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Routledge's Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park at Sydenham ...

Edward MacDermott - Great Exhibition - 1854 - 236 pages
...numerous. Mammoths' or elephants' bones and tusks occur throughout Russia in the diluvial formations, and more particularly in eastern Siberia and the Arctic marshes. The tusks are very numerous, and in so high a state of preservation that they even now form an article of commerce,...
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Beeton's Dictionary of universal information; comprising a complete summary ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...another of coarse flexible hair, and the third of a kind of wool. The bones and tusks of the mammoth are found throughout Russia, and more particularly in Eastern Siberia and the Arctic marshes, Ac. The tuaks form an article of commerce, aiid are much used in making the inferior kinds of ivory...
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