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that its food must have been similar to that of the hippopotamus and the 

 boar, but preferring the roots and fleshy parts of vegetables ; in the search 

 of which species of food it would, of course, be led to such soft and marshy 

 spots as he appears to have inhabited. It does not, however, appear to 

 have been at all formed for swimming, or for living much in the waters, 

 like the hippopotamus, but rather seems to have been entirely a terres- 

 trial animal. 



Other teeth, bearing a very close analogy with those of the animal 

 of the Ohio, have been long noticed by different authors ; but it is to 

 M. Cuvier that we are indebted for collecting and comparing the different 

 accounts which have been given of teeth belonging to this genus, but 

 which have been found in different places on the two continents, and 

 are of a different species than those of the Ohio. 



Dr. Grew, in 1681, in his History of the Rarities of Gresham, Plate xix. 

 Fig. 1, figured the upper part of one of these teeth, which he describes 

 as the petrified tooth of a marine animal. Reaumur figured part of a 

 tooth from Simorre, in Gascony, somewhat resembling this, in the Me- 

 moirs of the Academy of Sciences for 1715. D'Argenville has figured an 

 entire tooth resembling these, Oryctologie, PL xvni. Fig. 8, and which 

 he described as having belonged to some unknown fish. A similar tooth 

 is also represented in Pfete vni. of the Supplement to Knorr's work. 

 J. Baldessari, in 1767, described and figured, in the Memoirs of the 

 Academy of Sienna, Tom. in. /?. 243, two considerable portions of a 

 lower jaw found at Mount Follonico, and considered them as similar to 

 those described by M. Guettard. A tooth of this kind, of a large size, 

 was found in 1784, at Trevoux, and considered by M. de Morveau, Mem. 

 de VAcad. de Dijon, T. vi. p. 102, as being of the same species of those 

 from the Ohio. 



Besides these now mentioned, M. Cuvier was surprised to find, by his 

 correspondence, that these teeth were not unknown in several other parts 

 of Europe and America. In Sort, near to Dax ; Montabusart, near to 

 Orleans; Saxony; Asti, in Piedmont; the Vale of A rno; different parts 



