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PORBEAGLE, 



mouth, which also had eaten away the upper lip on the right 

 side, and which, occupying the roof of the mouth, had passed 

 down the gullet towards 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 rorbeaglc, (natural size.) 

 2.- Upper teetb. 3.— One ramus of the jaw. 



