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in each intermaxillary bone and three on each side of the 

 corresponding part of the lower jaw ; one canine tooth, 

 four premolars, and three true molars, on each side of 

 both jaws. The Palseothere has three toes on both the 

 fore and hind feet, and the nasal bones elevated, as in 

 the Tapir, which animal it must have nearly resembled 

 in its general form. 



The present species surpassed the largest Tapirs in its 

 size, which equalled that of the Horse ; and all the Palaso- 

 theres differed from the Tapir in having one toe less upon 

 the fore-foot, and also in the structure of both premolar 

 and molar teeth, which more resemble those of the Rhi- 

 noceros. 



Of the characters of the true molars of the upper jaw, 

 a clear idea may be gained by the subjoined figure of the 

 first or second of that series, which was discovered in the 

 freshwater eocene marl at Seafield in the Isle of Wight. 



Fig. 110. 



Upper molar tooth, Palieotherium maynum. 



The crown is almost a cube with a square grinding 

 surface, divided into two lobes by an oblique fissure, i, con- 

 tinued from near the middle of the inner surface of the 

 crown obliquely outwards and forwards, two-thirds across 



