34 NATURAL HISTORY. 



of the division, as Pyrrhus had. 1 Some creatiires have 

 over-long or out-growing teeth, which we call fangs, or 

 tusks : as boars, pikes, salmons ; and dogs, though less. 

 Some living creatures have teeth against teeth, as men 

 and horses ; and some have teeth, especially their mas 

 ter-teeth, indented one within another like saws ; as 

 lions ; and so again have dogs. Some fishes have 

 divers rows of teeth in the roofs of their mouths ; as 

 pikes, salmons, trouts, &c. And many more in salt- 

 waters. Snakes and other serpents have venomous 

 teeth ; which are sometimes mistaken for their sting. 



753. No. beast that hath horns hath upper teeth ; 

 and no beast that hath teeth above wanteth them be 

 low : but yet if they be of the same kind, it followeth 

 not that if the hard matter goeth not into upper teeth, 

 it will go into horns ; nor yet e converso ; for does, 

 that have no horns, have no upper teeth. 2 



754. Horses have, at three years old, a tooth put 

 forth, which they call the colt s tooth ; and at four 

 years old there cometh the mark-tooth, which hath a 

 hole as big as you may lay a pea 8 within it ; and that 

 weareth shorter and shorter every year ; till that at 

 eight years old the tooth is smooth, and the hole gone : 

 and then they say, that the mark is out of the horse s 

 mouth. 



755. The teeth of men breed first, when the child is 

 about a year and a half old : and then they cast them, 

 and new come about seven years old. But divers 

 have backward teeth come forth at twenty, yea, some 

 at thirty and forty. Queer e of the manner of the com- 



1 Plutarch, in Pyrrhus, p. 434. 



2 See Arist. De Part. Anim. Hi. 2., and Hist. Animal, ii. 1. 

 a pease in the original. J. S. 



