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anterior five form continuous curves, convex forwards, the first being 
just behind the incisor teeth; the posterior five, starting from the 
sides forwards and inwards, turn suddenly backwards at right angles 
- to their former direction, and, meeting in the middle line, produce 
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also somewhat further apart than those in front, and have one or two 
rows of mammillated projections in the spaces thus left. The back 
part of the palate is not ridged ; and the uvula is represented by two 
slight projections, one on each side of the middle line, with a very 
shallow notch between them. 
The tongue is 3 inches long from the tip to the posterior of the 
circumvallate papille; its sides are nearly straight and parallel, con- 
verging slightly in front; at its base the breadth is 1 inch, and in 
front it decreases to 4 inch. The mucous membrane covering its 
lower surface and the floor of the mouth is smooth; and the superior 
edge of the frenum lingue is 14 inch from the tip, which latter is 
simply rounded. The mucous membrane of the superior surface, 
which is thickly set with papille, extends up to and slightly over the 
margins of the tongue in its anterior part, forming a thin-edged 
fringe all along the border. The anterior half of the superior surface 
is covered with easily visible, hispid, feline, retroverted papillz, par- 
ticularly large at the centre, diminishing in size laterally and for- 
wards, where, at the extreme margin, some fungiformes are mixed up 
with them. In the back part of the tongue the papille fungiformes 
are sparsely scattered among the diminished filiformes; and the 
papille circumvallate, nine in number and not equal in size, form 
the usual V, four on each side, with one median and posterior. 
Between these and the epiglottis the mucous membrane is soft and 
covered sparsely with thin cylindrical papilla, some of which reach 
4 inch’in length; these are most uniform in diameter from end to 
end near the middle line, and towards the sides they become shorter 
and broader at their bases, till they blend with and become un- 
distinguishable from their filiformes. No ossified lytta could be 
found. 
- The parotid is slightly the largest of the salivary glands ; it is irre- 
gularly shaped and thin at its edges, where it is interpolated between 
the muscles. The submaxillary gland is egg-shaped, and about ? inch 
in average diameter; its duct runs far forwards on the floor of the 
mouth, opening within 3 inch of that of the opposite side, npon the 
symphysis of the jaw and closely bound to it, just behind the canine 
teeth and half an inch behind the incisors: The sublingual gland is 
elongate, and nearly as large as the submaxillary. . 
The stomach has a very peculiar shape, being elongated longitu- 
dinally, and consisting of a longitudinal cylindrical portion running 
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