or MAMMUTH, the name of a huge animal, now unknown, to which are said to have belonged those tusks, bones, and skeletons, of vast magnitude, which have been frequently found in different parts of Siberia, as well in the mountains as the valleys; likewise in Russia, Germany, and North America. Many specimens of them may be seen in the Imperial cabinet at Peterburgh: in the British, Dr Hunter's, and the late Sir Ashton Lever's museums, and in that of the Royal Society. A description of the mammoth is given by Muller in the Recueil des Voyages au Nord: "This animal, he says, is four or five yards high, and about 35 feet long. His colour is grayish. His head is very long, and his front very broad. On each side, precisely under the eyes, there are two horns, which he can move and crost at pleasure. In walking he has the power of extending and contracting his body to a great degree." Ibrandes Ides gives a similar account; but he is candid enough to acknowledge, that he never knew any person who had seen the mammoth alive. Mamre Mr Pennant, however, thinks it "more than probable that it still exists in some of those remote parts of the vast new continent, impenetrated yet by Europeans. Providence (he adds) maintains and continues every created species; and we have as much assurance, that no race of animals will any more cease while the earth remaineth, than feed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night." The Ohio Indians have a tradition handed down from their fathers respecting these animals, "That in ancient times a herd of them came to the Big-bone Licks, and began an universal destruction of the bears, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians: that the Great Man above, looking down and seeing this, was so enraged that he seized his lightning, descended to the earth, seated himself upon a neighbouring mountain on a rock, on which his seat and the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who, prefenting his forehead to the thafis, thook them off as they fell; but at length missing one, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day." See MAMMALIA Index.