92 MAMMALIA. 
&e. Its external resemblance to the common Mole of Europe (1) 
is so great, that it is easy to mistake the one for the other. 
FAMILY III. 
CARNIVORA. 
Although the term carnivorous is applicable to all unguicu- 
lated animals, not quadrumanate, that have three sorts of 
teeth, inasmuch as they all use more or less animal aliment, 
there are, however, many of them, the two preceding families 
especially, which are compelled by weakness and the conical 
tubercles of their grinders to live almost entirely on Insects. 
It is in the present family that the sanguinary appetite for 
flesh is joined to the force necessary to obtain it. There are 
always four stout, long, and separated canini, between which 
are six incisors in each jaw, the root of the second of the 
lower ones being placed a little more inwards than the others. 
The molars are either wholly trenchant, or have some blunted 
tuberculous parts, but they are never bristled with conical 
points. 
These animals are so much the more exclusively carnivo- 
rous, as their teeth are the more completely trenchant, and 
the proportions of their regimen may be calculated from the 
extent of the tuberculous surface of their teeth, compared with 
that which is trenchant. The Bears, which can live altoge- 
ther on vegetables, have nearly all their teeth tuberculated. 
The anterior molars are the most trenchant; next comes a 
molar, larger than the others, usually furnished with a larger 
or smaller tuberculous’heel; then follow one or two small teeth, 
that are perfectly flat. It is with these small teeth in the 
back part of the mouth that the dog chews the grass he some- 
times swallows. We will call, with M. Fr. Cuvier, this large 
upper molar, and its corresponding one below, carnivorous 
teeth; the anterior pointed ones, false molars; and the poste- 
rior blunted ones, tuberculous teeth. : 
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