PALHOTHERIUM MAGNUM, S77 
in each intermaxillary bone and three on each side of the 
corresponding part of the lower jaw; one canine tooth, 
four premolars, and three true molars, on each side of 
both jaws. The Paleothere has three toes on both the 
fore and hind feet, and the nasal bones elevated, as in 
the Tapir, which animal it must have nearly resembled 
in its general form. 
The present species surpassed the largest Tapirs in its 
size, which equalled that of the Horse ; and all the Palseo- 
theres differed from the Tapir in having one toe less upon 
the fore-foot, and also in the structure of both premolar 
and molar teeth, which more resemble those of the Rhi- 
noceros. 
Of the characters of the true molars of the upper jaw, 
a clear idea may be gained by the subjoined figure of the 
first or second of that series, which was discovered in the 
freshwater eocene marl at Seafield in the Isle of Wight. 
Fig. 110, 
Upper molar tooth, Paleotherium magnum. 
The crown is almost a cube with a square grinding 
surface, divided into two lobes by an oblique fissure, 6, con- 
tinued from near the middle of the inner surface of the 
crown obliquely outwards and forwards, two-thirds across 
