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be observed, it will be seen that nature is preparing 

 to cut the corner milk teeth, which may even be 

 through the gum. 



38. At nine months old, the corner milk teeth are 

 up, hut their edges do not yet meet. The coloured 

 engraving will show the appearance they present, and 

 likewise exhibit the protruded state of the gums at 

 this age. The drawing was made from a head in the 

 author's possession. It has been tested several times, 

 and its correctness fully ascertained. The last occa- 

 sion, when it was authenticated, was by the mouth 

 of a bay colt, by Muley Moloch, out of Canaletti's 

 dam, with which it perfectly agreed. 



39. At one year, all the temporary teeth are up 

 and in apposition ; but by this time two pairs of 

 permanent teeth, which are the fourth molars, have 

 made their appearance, and the yearling therefore 

 has sixteen molars and twelve incisors, or twenty- 

 eight teeth. The large number of yearlings annually 

 brought into the market afford such frequent oppor- 

 tunities of examining the mouth at this age, that I 

 need not state here the means by which the drawing 



