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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 23 April 1908, Page 9

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"The Academy of Science at St. Petersburg, is reported to have last month dispatched a well-equipped expedition: to tho Valley of Sant-auriaUh; in Northorn Siberia, inordorto oxcavatb tile.remains of tile mammoth:which has; been . 'discovered about 200 miles from the village of Ka-sachia. Tho cranium and part of .tho' right; forelegs were exposed through the'action of water, and ; hair-covered ..flesh was. found adhering to tho bones.'. Tlio Arctic foxes had, actually bogun to eat it, and water, has now been poured over,tho exposed ; remains so as to form a protective Mating of ice. .The scene of the discovery is so remote that tho journey there will occupy two months. -The remains will be,transported by,some fifty sleighs, drawn-by reindeer, to the River Lena, and the final stagos of tlio journey, from Irkutsk to St.. Petersburg, .will bo completed' by train. Russian scientists attach . tho greater value to the discovery, inasmuch as tho mammoth now exhibited in tho Zoological Musoum at St. Petersburg is known not to have reached full development. It is estimated to havo attained only 25 years. Tlioso mammoths are believed to harp lived about 100,000 years ago. ' ,The remains of tho; first one discovered wero ill such an. excellent state of preservation that some of the remnants' of flesh, after being thawed, salted, and cooked, woro actually eaten out. of • curiosity by some Russian scientists. ' . .