 | William Boyd Dawkins - Europe - 1880 - 612 pages
...Dawkins, Quart, Journ. Geol. Soc. Land., xxxv. 138, for the references to the ran^e of the mammoth. that spot at that time they might have been entombed...fashion. The remains of the animal occur throughout Eussian Asia; and the singular notice of fossil ivory being brought for sale to Khiva, by an enterprising... | |
 | B. C. Y. - Geological time - 1882 - 208 pages
...1880, p. 193. 47 The Times, April 25, 1881 ; and ' Early Man in Britain,' p. 106. 4—2 Lieutenant Benkendorf and his Cossacks narrowly escaped the alternative of being entombed in the soft morass. There are some differences to be noted in the circumstances of these two cases. The mammoth found by... | |
 | Leisure - 1882 - 816 pages
...rapidly that Lieutenant Benkendorf and his Cossacks narrowly escaped the alternative of being either entombed in the soft morass or of being swept out northwards into the Arctic Sea — as it happened, his mammoth was — there to join that vast assemblage of the remains of these and other... | |
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Land., xxxv. 138, for the references to the ran^e of the mammoth. that spot at that time they might have been entombed in the same way, and preserved by the frosts of the winter till they were liberated again by the rare chance of their place of sepulture... 