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upon baring them I could not fay that they refemblcd any of 

 thofe bones. As to the teeth, they were perfcdly regular in all 

 their parts, having bafcs and fangs, and almoft all being incafed 

 in an alveolar procefs and fockets, in the fame way as teeth 

 regularly are. They were forty-four in number, and the e;reater 

 part was diftinguifliable into fome of the fpecies : Some weie 

 fo unformed as that they could not be ranged into particular 

 clafles. There were eight incifors, three canini, four bicufpides, 

 and fixteen molares. Thefe could be reduced to their orders une- 

 quivocally, the remainder I doubted about. Several of them were 

 of the firft crop of teeth, whilft the greater number were evi- 

 dently fuch as we fhould find in the jaws of perfons of fourteen 

 or fifteen years of age. I am convinced that fome of the teeth 

 may have been loft, and that there are others ftill covered in the 

 cyfts ; for I have here given an account of more than were dif- 

 coverable at the time the drawings were made. Sixteen of 

 Plate II. the teeth were incafed in the pile of bone, marked {b) ; 

 the others were fcattered without order, except that in general 

 it did not happen that teeth of different fpecies were clofe to 

 one another, but that incifors, for example, would grow in the 

 neighbourhood of each other, and even in contad, fo as that their 

 fangs grew together. There was alfo in one part of this fac a 

 diftind cell, in which was contained a quantity of hair, which 

 feemed like the hair of the head, and which was matted into a 

 cake by fome matter, probably fuch as filled the cavity of the fac. 

 Plate II. Some of thofe little tubercles, (marked a, a, &c.) or fmall veficles, 

 which lay in the fac, were alfo befet with fmall hairs. 



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