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the mouth, forming those two mobile and fleshy pendants 

 which cover a part of the lower jaw laterally. These are 

 set with small corneous spines, about an inch long, which 

 are doubtless organs of touch ; between these is a slope in 

 front of the upper jaw, which receives the extremity of the 

 lower, above which the point of the tusks is perceptible on 

 each side. The interior of these lips is furnished with 

 corneous warts, which it is supposed the animal employs 

 to tear away the alga on which it feeds. The nostrils form 

 two parabolic clefts, approximating at the upper extremity 

 of the muzzle; the opening of the ear is very small, and 

 there is no external conch ; the eyes are simple and small ; 

 the fins shew no vestige of nails, but have warty callosities 

 underneath at their external edge ; the tail is horizontally 

 sloped or cut like the arch of a circle; the body is wider at 

 the middle than the extremities, and the side of the tail is 

 more slender than the opposite side ; the skin is smooth, 

 and has some scattered hairs. An individual taken near 

 Singapoor, and described by M.M. Diard and Duvaucel, 

 was seven feet long. These gentlemen found suspended 

 in the flesh, on each side in front of the eighth lumbar 

 vertebra, two narrow and flat bones evidently forming 

 the rudiments of a pelvis; the vertebras were fifty- two in 

 number, and the ribs thirty-six; the ventricles of the heart 

 were separated at their origin; the lungs were not lobu- 

 lated; the tracheal artery was bifurcated immediately 

 below the larynx : the liver was divided into two large 

 lobes, and the gall-bladder covered by a smaller lobe in 

 the shape of a tongue. The kidneys are large, and the 

 bladder susceptible of great extension. 



The animal had two stomachs : the second smaller than 

 the first, and near its orifice two conical csecums. 



The Malays call this animal Douyong, and hold its flesh 

 In such estimation, that it is reserved for the tables of the 

 Sultan and the Rajahs. 



