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could the animal found by Pallas, he asks, have come there 

 from the Indies, or from any other warm country, without 

 falling to pieces ? How could it have been preserved, if the 

 ice had not involved it suddenly ; and therefore how could 

 it have been involved in this manner, if the change of 

 climate had been gradual and insensible ? 



Hippopotamus. The existence of fossil remains of this 

 animal was for some time disputed ; but the fact was ascer- 

 tained by Cuvier, by the examination of some fossil remains 

 from Languedoc. Since that time similar remains have 

 been found in various parts, and, particularly, in this island, 

 in those situations in which the remains of elephants have 

 also been discovered. They were found by Mr. Trimmer 

 in the clay at Brentford, and I have obtained several inter- 

 esting specimens during my researches on the Essex coast. 

 But the most important discovery respecting this animal 

 was made by Cuvier, in the examination of some fossil 

 remains, the locality of which could not be ascertained. 

 By a careful investigation he was able to ascertain that they 

 were the bones of an unknown species of hippopotamus. 

 This animal, it appeared, could not have exceeded half the 

 size of the existing species ; it being evident, from the state 

 of its teeth and the advanced progress of ossification, that 

 its small size had not proceeded from its having been a 

 young animal, but from a difference of species. 



Tapir. The only known species of this genus is an 

 inhabitant of South America. It is formed like the hog, 

 but is as tall as the ass, with its snout elongated into a 

 moveable trunk. It has, in each jaw, six incisors and two 

 canine teeth which are not longer than the incisors. Its 

 skin is black, and almost without hair. It lives on the banks 

 of rivers. 



Two portions of the lower jaws which had been dis- 

 covered in the black mountain, at Issel, in Languedoc, 

 were found, by Cuvier, to agree generally with the tapir of 



