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perfect, and discover the great supply 

 which prevented the waste of attiliion, 

 and made the teeth endure the compres- 

 sion of any hard body between the jaws. 

 This box affords a rich contemplation. 



Mo, 9, 



Possesses the remains of an animal of the 

 anterior world. Coming to a rock, which 

 the naturalist had to spring, in following 

 a vein of mineral, this grand object ap- 

 peared under the deep explosion. It is 

 the defence of an herbivorous incognitum^ of 

 ponderous volume, and amazing height. 

 The defence in a state of perfection, must 

 have been five hundred weight, implying 

 a head of twelve hundred weight. The 

 present fine subject, in a state of decom- 

 position, weighs one hundred and fifty 

 pounds, is twenty five inches in circum 

 ference, and when (being in three parts) 

 put together, is sixteen feet long. It is 

 by no means in the Ibrm of that of the 

 elephant ; it makes a complete revolve, 

 and appears as if the animal could have 

 moved it at pleasure. The grain traverses 



