lephant of a small size, covered with shaggy
hair. But this variety must be exceedingly rare; for Mr. Royle
(late superintendent of the East India Company's Botanic Garden
at Saharunpore) has assured me, that being in India when Heber's
Journal appeared, and having never seen or heard of such
elephants, he made the strictest inquiries respecting the fact,
and was never able to obtain any evidence in corroboration. Mr.
Royle resided at Saharunpore, lat. 30 degrees N., upon _the
extreme northern limits_ of the range of the elephant. Mr.
Everest also declares that he has been equally unsuccessful in
finding any one aware of the existence of such a variety or
breed of the animal, though one solitary individual was
mentioned to him as having been seen at Delhi, with a good deal
of long hair upon it. The greatest elevation, says Mr. E., at
which the wild elephant is found in the mountains to the north
of Bengal, is at a place called Nahun, about 4000 feet above the
level of the sea, and in the 31st degree of N. lat., where the
mean yearly temperature may be about 64 degrees Fahrenheit, and
the difference between winter and summer very great, equal to
about 36 degrees F., the month of January averaging 45 degrees,
and June, the hottest month, 81 degrees F. (Everest on climate
of Foss. Eleph., Journ. of Asiat. Soc., No. 25, p. 21.)

[145] See Dr. Buckland's description of these bones, Appen. to
Beechy's Voy.

[146] Darwin, Journal of Travels in S. America, &c., 1832-36,
in voyage of H. M. S. Beagle, p. 98. 2d Ed. London, 1845, p.
86.

[147] Darwin, Journal of Travels in S. America, &c., p. 99, 2d
Ed. p. 85.

[148] Burchell, cited by Darwin, ibid. p. 101. 2d Ed. p. 87.

[149] Since the above passage was first printed in a former
edition, June, 1835, it has been shown by the observations of
Sir R. Murchison, M. de Verneuil, and Count Keyserling, and
more recently by M. Middendorf (see above, p. 81), that the
Lowland of Siberia has actually been extended, since the
existing species of shells inhabited the northern seas.

[150] Humboldt, Fragmens Asiatiques, tom. ii. p. 393.

[151] Reboul. Geol. de la Pariode Quaternaire, who cites
Observ. sur la Sibarie, Bibl. Univ.