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mouth, which also had eaten away the upper h'p on the right 

 side, and which, occu;"'ying the roof of the mouth, had passed 

 down the gullet towai ;ls the stomach. This disease bore a near 

 resemblance to the cancer in the higher race of animals, and 

 appears to have arisen spontaneously. A more lengthened degree 

 of suffering was happily cut short by its becoming entangled 

 in a fishing-net, from which it was not able to deliver itself. 



1 . Largest Tooth of Poi'beagle, (natural size.) 

 2.- Upper teeth. 3. One ramus of the Jaw. 



