On the Fojpl Boiiei of extinct Speaes. y i j 



feeing, more obtufe, and the laminse of which its grinders are compofed being thinner. The 

 true analogous living animal is not known, though it has been hitherto confidered as the or- 

 dinary elephant. ■ 



2. The animal, of which the remains are found on the banks of the Ohio in North Ame- 

 rica, which the Americans and Englifh have alfo named mammouth, though it differs much 

 from the former. Remains of this animal are alfo found in Europe and in Afia. It mufl; ■ 

 have been nearly the height of the elephant, but more bulky; its tufks are fmaller; its 

 grinders are armed with large cutting points, of which the feSion by wear prefents double 

 tranfverfal lozenges. There are three molar teeth on each fide, one of four, one having fix, 

 and one eight, points. 



3. The animal of which the teeth tinged by copper afford the turquois ftone, and of which 

 there was a mine at Slmore, in Languedoc. The remains of this fame fpecies is found in 

 the department of Ain, in Pcfu, and elfewhere. It muft have confidcrably refembled the 

 former, but the points of its molar teeth are round, and when worn, their feftion prefents, 

 firft, a circle, then a femi-oval, and afterwards, a figure of a trefoil, which has caufed them 

 to be confounded with the teeth of the rhinoceros : fome of thefe teeth have twelve points, 

 others fix, others four. 



4. The rhinoceros. The feet and fragments of the jaws of this animal are found in 

 Trance, and elfewhere, in which the author has hitherto obferved nothing which differs from 

 the common rhinoceros ; but, as he has not yet fcen an entire bone, he cannot pofitively af- 

 firm that they are identical. 



5. The fpecies of rhinoceros, with an oblong craneum, which is found in Siberia, Ger- 

 many, and other countries. The author has feen teeth, and parts of the jaw-bones, found 

 in France, which appeared to him hkewife to belong to this animal ; the principal character 

 of this fpecies confifls in the long clofure of the nofe : the living analogous animal is 

 unknown. » 



6- A molar tootn with tvro tranfverfal eminences, which is in the pofTeffion of Citizen 

 Gillet ; and of which the Naticmal Mufeum pofleffes a young tooth that refembles neither the 

 teeth nor the germs of any animal yet known, whether living or foffilc: the only tooth 

 •which this flightly refembles is the laft molar tooth of the rhinoceros. This tooth, there- 

 fore, indicates the exiftcnce of a fixth foffde fpecies, of which the living analogous animal is 

 unknown. 



"7. The animal, twelve feet in length, and fix in height, of which the fkeleton was found 

 under ground at Paraguay, and is preferved in the royal cabinet at Spain, at Madrid. The au- 

 thor proves by a detailed comparifon of the bones, with thofe of all the known quadrupeds, 

 that it is a'proper and difiin£l fpecies, more nearly approaching the floth than any other genus, 

 and that it may be called the giant floth. Citizen Cuvier, in this place, communicates the 

 interefting difcovery he has made, that the floth (bradypus tridaBybus, Lin.) has naturally 

 rand conftantly nine cervical vertebrae. It is the firft known exception, eftablillied by Citizen 

 Cauberton, that all quadrupeds have neither more nor lefs than feven cervical vertebrae. 



8. The animal, of which the remains are found in the caverns near Gaylenreuth and 

 Muggendorf, in the margraviate of Bayreuth, in Franconia. Various authors have confi- 

 dered 



