OF CREATION. 



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mous body is preserved in a skeleton existing in 

 the Museum at Madrid. Another skeleton, also, of 

 a nearly allied species (Mylodon*), smaller indeed, 

 but not less interesting, has been brought to England, 

 and has been the subject of a most elaborate descrip- 

 tion by Professor Owen, while the skeleton itself, 

 admirably articulated, may be seen in the Museum 

 of the Eoyal College of Surgeons in London, The 

 complete structure of an extinct species has in no 

 instance been more satisfactorily made out than in 

 the case before us; and, therefore, the whole nature 



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MEGATHERIUM. 



of the argument by which conclusions are arrived at, 

 from the comparison of the shapes and peculiar pro 

 jections and proportions of bones, may well be illus- 

 trated here by a reference to this remarkable extinct 

 species. 



* MvXrj (myk), a mill ; oSovg (odous*), a tooth. 



