The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq.

  • Newton, John Frank.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    remains in those once genial climates: and this is precisely what we find to be the fact. Indeed very recently at the mouth of the river Lena in Siberia,* within a few paces of the shore of the frozen ocean, not the skeleton * See an account of this mammoth, translated from the memoir of Michael Adams of Petersburgh, who made a journey expressly to recover these interesting remains. Who- ever shall consult this paper in The Philosophical Maga- zine, vol. xxix. p. 141, which is admirably drawn up, will be repaid for his trouble. There is reason to think that the animal there described was overwhelmed suddenly, as it appeared to have been well fed to the last, by the good condition it was in, and by the hanging of the belly below the knees. Mr. Adams, after stating that he saw mammoth horns in profusion and pieces of wood of ail Siberian kinds, and of an enormous size, frozen between the fissures of the rocks, confesses his incompetency to explain how all these things were collected there. It is extraordinary enough that the inhabitants of the coast call these pieces of wood Adam- sohina, thereby giving their present position a date beyond the flood. This mammoth was distinguished in a remark- able manner from the elephant by being covered every where with bristles issuing from its thick coat, as well as in many other particulars: such as its long mane, its less substantial horn, the direction of its teeth, and the doubt of its having had a proboscis. In his agitation of the question, whether the mammoth was originally an inhabitant of the tropical or the polar climates, Mr. Adams has used some phrases which are very favourable to the supposition of the former perpend i- cularity of the earth's axis.