OF CREATION. 



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The figure presents an outline of the animal as it 

 may have appeared when engaged in obtaining food 

 from the trees of the forests it inhabited. The atti- 

 tude is the same as that in which the perfect skeleton 

 in the Royal College of Surgeons is set up. 



Fig. 146 



The Megalonyx* is another genus, chiefly known 

 by bones of the extremities. It appears to have had 

 the thumb more developed, and greater freedom of 

 motion of the fore extremity. In other respects, and 

 in its proportions, it probably resembled the Mylodon. 



The Scelidotherium f differs rather more from the 



* MeyaXr/ (megale), great ; ovv' (onyx), a claw. 



f S/cf\i, gen. aiceXidoQ (scelidos), the thigh ; 9r]piov (therion), beast. 



