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and the intermediate gradations in the fossil molars, by 

 which such rare extreme varieties are linked to the normal 

 type of the Mammoth's dentition, give cause for rejecting 

 the conclusion that the Elephas Indicus co-existed with 

 the Mammoth in the latitude of England during the au- 

 tediluvial or anteglacial epoch : and I think it probable 

 that such differences as have been pointed out in the 

 molar from the Museum of Parkinson, and that of the 

 existing Elephant, might likewise have been detected in 

 the large molar, found at the depth of six feet in brick 

 loam, at Hove near Brighton, and alluded to by Dr. 

 Mantell as decidedly that of the Asiatic Elephant.* One 

 of the molars from the Elephant bed at Brighton, now in 

 the possession of Mr. Stone of Grarlick Hill, exhibits the 

 narrow-plated variety of the Mammoth's grinder. 



The molars of the Mammoth generally contain a greater 

 proportion of cement in the intervals of the plates than the 

 Indian Elephant's grinders do. Those in which the plates 

 are more numerous have the enamel less strongly plicated ; 

 but in some of the large molar teeth of old Mammoths 

 with the thicker plates, as in fig. 90, the enamel is as 

 strongly festooned as in the teeth of the Indian Elephant. 



The bones of the Mammoth that have hitherto been 

 disinterred, present no variations from the characteristic 

 extinct type indicative of distinct species ; and it might 

 reasonably have been expected that the lower jaw, for 

 example, with the broad-plated tooth should have offered as 

 recognizable differences from that with the narrow-plated 

 teeth, as this does from the lower jaw of the Indian Ele- 

 phant, if those modifications of the teeth of the Mammoth 

 indicated distinct species. The lower jaw, however, of 

 the ancient British Mammoth has the same distinctive 



* Fossils of the South Downs,' 4to, 1822, p, 283. 



