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exhibited, however, were such as set judgment at 

 defiance, and for the purpose of enabling the reader 

 to form his own opinion on the matter, engravings 

 of a few of them are here introduced. 



The above wood-cut exhibits the tables and ar- 

 rangement of the incisors as they were seen in the 

 mouth of an animal which was proved to be no less 

 than twenty-eight years old. Any one, who should 

 base his opinion solely on the marks, must have 

 pronounced the creature to have been no more than 

 five, since none of the infundibula are lost. The 

 semi-circular arrangement also had suffered no very 

 material change, and altogether the contrast with 

 the next representation of the same parts, as they 

 appeared in the mouth of a horse which was but 

 one year older, is very striking. 



