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The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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The Russian brig Rurick, commanded by Lieut. Kotzebue, arrived at Portsmouth, England, after a nearly three-year voyage of discovery. During the voyage, they encountered a large iceberg covered with earth, trees, and vegetable matter, including putrefying mammoth remains. Kotzebue landed and retrieved tusks and other parts of large animals preserved in ice.
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Portsmouth, England
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lieut. kotzebue brought from off the iceberg a number of tusks and other parts of immense animals, which it is calculated had remained in a frozen state until the ice reached a more southerly latitude.
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The Russian brig Rurick, commanded by Lieut. Kotzebue, had been out on a voyage of discovery nearly three years before arriving at Portsmouth, Eng. During the voyage, they fell in with an Iceberg of great magnitude, a portion of the surface being covered with earth and mould, and bearing trees and vegetable productions. Its water line was covered with a shore formed by the deposit of earthly matter, which had washed down from the higher parts of the earth covered Iceberg. A landing was made on this shore, and a part of the remains of the mammoth in a state of putrefaction was found.