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jaw, the first being small, compressed, and rather sharp. 

 Before the first small grinder, the jaw is void of teeth or 

 sockets for a little space, and at the end of this space is the 

 canine tooth. This tooth is not a tusk projecting out of the 

 mouth, as in many species of hogs ; it is rather concealed by 

 the lips, as in the tapir, hippopotamus, and Mexican hog. 

 The incisive teeth are of the common wedge-like form, and 

 are six in number, as in the tapir. In the upper jaw are 

 also six incisors, two canine teeth, and the grinders, having 

 four roots, whilst those of the under jaw have only two. 

 By the most ingenious investigations it was ascertained, that 

 this animal possessed a kind of snout or trunk, resembling 

 that of the tapir. 



Correspondent bones were found of different sizes, by a 

 careful and anxious comparison of which, the indefatigable 

 inquirer ascertained that there existed in these quarries the 

 remains of four species of this animal : one of which, of the 

 size of a common cow or small horse, he named palccoiherium 

 magnum ; the next in size, nearly as large as a common hog, 

 he named P. medium. From several other bones, remark- 

 able for their thickness, he determined on the existence of 

 another species, which he distinguished as P. crassum ; and, 

 from several fragments, he was enabled to determine that 

 there also existed the remains of an animal of this genus, 

 which could not be larger than a fox, to which he gave the 

 name of P. minus. 



By numerous accurate inquiries it was also ascertained 

 that the feet of this animal were tridactyle ; that the neck 

 was longer than that of the tapir and hog, approaching those 

 ruminants with a neck of a moderate size and with a slight 

 form, such as the stags and the antelopes ; and that the 

 ribs were sixteen in number. 



Imperfect remains of another animal were found, by 

 Professor Herman, in the mountain of St. Sebastian, one of 

 the lowest in the chain of Vosges. In this animal, as in the 



