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rous monster, lurking in the woods. The 

 teeth with less indention than this, betray 

 a mixed animal ; and those which have 

 still less indention, and which express a 

 rotatory motion, show the animal to be 

 graminivorous, and sometimes also mix- 

 ed. This box contains twenty specimens 

 of the above characters. Some of the 

 teeth are elegantly stained, by the long 

 and unremitting industry of nature ; and 

 some, from lying in contact with mineral 

 substances, have obtained radiant and 

 prismatic colours. 



Xo. 8, 



Contains about twenty four specimens of 

 carnivorous grinders, of such variety of 

 size that the animal's age can be follow- 

 ed from one to innumerable years. A 

 process, which sunk into the maxillce^ is 

 five inches wide, and the cones on the 

 surface two inches deep. Some teeth ex- 

 hibit nothing but the cortex, from which 

 fire can be struck, and yet many are was- 

 ted by manducation. The canals, in which 

 nerves and blood-vessels were lodged, axe 



