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and was armed like it with enormous tusks, but 

 with tusks covered with enamel, shorter legs, 

 and whose mamillated grinders, invested with ^ 

 thick and shining enamel, have long furnished 

 what has been called occidental turquoise *. 



Its remains, which are pretty common in the 

 temperate parts of Europe, are not so much so 

 towards the north ; but it has also been found in 

 the mountains of South America, along with two 

 allied species. 



In North America immense quantities of the 

 remains of the great mastodon have been found, 

 a species larger than the preceding, as high in 

 proportion as the elephant, with equally huge 

 tusks, and whose grinders, which are covered over 

 with bristling points, made it long be considered 

 as a carnivorous animal f. 



Its bones were of a large size, and very solid. 

 Even its hoofs and stomach are said to have been 

 found in a sufficient state of preservation to be re- 

 cognisable ; and it is asserted that the stomach 

 was filled with bruised branches of trees. The 

 Indians imagine that the whole race was destroyed 



* " Researches/' vol. i. p. 250, 265 and 335 ; vol. iv. p. 

 493. 



t Id. vol. i, p. 206, 249 ; vol. iii. p. 37 6. 



