Large thigh Bone. ^6g 



the thigh and jaw bones differ in feveral refpefls 

 from thofe of the elephant; but what put the 

 matter beyond all difpute, was the fhape of the 

 grinders, which clearly appeared to be thofe of 

 a carnivorous aninnal, or at leaft of an animal 

 of the mixed kind, being furnilhed with a dou- 

 ble row of high and conic procefles, as if in- 

 tended to mafticate, not to grind the food, and 

 the enamel making a cruft on the outftde only of 

 the teeth, as in a human grinder. They totally 

 differ from thofe of the elephant, which is well 

 known not to be of the carnivorous, but grami- 

 niverous kind, both by the form of its grinders, 

 and by its never tafting animal food. A few 

 years ago, I had in my polTeflion an elephant's 

 grinder, which Sir Afhton Lever did me the 

 honour to place in his elegant Mufeum. This 

 is flat, and ribbed tranfverfely on its furface. 



Some have fuppofed thefe foffil bones to be- 

 long to the hippopotamus, or river horfe; but 

 there are many reafons againft this fuppofition, 

 as the hippopotamus is even much fmaller than 

 the elephant, and has fuch remarkably fhort 

 legs, that his belly reaches within three or four 

 inches of the ground. 



The late Dr. Hunter, in a paper on this 

 fubjeft, read before the Royal Society the 15th 

 of February 1768, and publiflied in the tranf- 

 adlions of that year, gives a particular account 

 of feveral tufl<s and grinders in the tower, which, 

 came from the Ohio, and others which Dr. 

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