224 PROBOSCIDIA. 
lower jaw of a young Mammoth, from the bone-cave at 
Kent’s Hole, near Torquay: the crown of which is divided, 
like that from Ilford and Kirkdale, into eight transverse 
plates: and is supported by two fangs or roots, a small 
anterior, and a thick and large pos- 
Fig. 87. 
terior one: the sockets of these 
fangs are shown in fig. 86, anterior 
to the empty socket of the third 
molar in the young Mammoth, and 
anterior to that molar which is in 
a Dah ave place, in the young Elephant. 
The average size of the second lower molar tooth in the 
Indian Elephant,* is two inches and a half in length, and 
one inch in breadth, which, compared with the dimensions 
of the corresponding molar of the young Mammoth above 
given, shows that already the specific character of the He- 
phas primigenius, founded on the superior breadth of the 
tooth, is recognisable. I have found this character still 
more strongly manifested in the second molar of a young 
Mammoth which had perished before that tooth had come 
into use; it was found in the pleistocene fresh-water 
deposits, exposed on the sea-coast, near Cromer, Norfolk ; 
the crown, which is divided, as in the rest, into eight plates, 
measures three inches in antero-posterior diameter, and two 
inches in breadth. An entire second molar of the lower 
Jaw of a young Mammoth, from the pleistocene blue-clay at 
Mundesley, Norfolk, had the crown, which measured three 
inches in length, and one inch five lines in breadth, divided 
into seven plates: it belongs to what will be subsequently 
* This tooth is shed before the Elephant has attained its sixth year. 
+ The Mammoth’s molar from the drift at Fouvent, figured by Cuvier in the 
* Ossemens Fossiles,’ vol. i. pl. vi. fig. 2, as “ une vraie molaire de lait,” is a much 
worn and naturally shed second molar: the figure is half the natural size. 
