ELEPHANTS, RECENT AND EXTINCT. 



teeth; these two species being respectively confined to 

 Africa, and to India and the adjacent regions. These two 

 kinds of elephants are, however, merely the last survivors 

 of a vast host of extinct forms, some of which were closely 

 related to their living cousins ; while others differed so 

 .'markedly 1 fa .the; structure of their teeth as to have 

 "received 1 'the 'distinctive appellation of mastodons, although 



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