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one before and the other behind ; the external or lateral 

 incisors, which are the smallest of ail the teeth-, are simply 

 conical, slightly compressed, and a little bent backward at 

 their point, and placed at some distance from the incisors, 

 like canine teeth. There are seven cheek-teeth on each 

 side, the three first being the smallest and apart from each 

 other ; the four following rather larger. But we shall not 

 pursue M. Desmarest further, in relation to the upper 

 cheek-teeth, as they seem to present the ordinary character 

 of insectivorous teeth, making in all twenty in the upper 

 jaw. 



The lower jaw is very slender ; it has four incisors, flat, 

 close, furrowed longitudinally, with the upper end of the 

 furrow wider than the rest ; the lateral incisors are partly 

 bedded horizontally on the intermediate, and rise a little 

 on the external edge ; five teeth with many lobes follow on 

 each side, which may be considered as false molars, as 

 distinct from each other as those of the upper jaw, the first 

 being larger than the others, and resembling in that parti- 

 cular only a canine tooth. The true molars in this jaw are 

 only three. In all in this jaw also twenty. 



Hence, continues M. Desmarest, the Mole and the Con- 

 dylure differ in their dentition as follows : 



Condylure, incisors f, canine, , cheek-teeth, ^=40 * 

 Mole, -f, H H=44 



The Condylure has the muzzle very much elongated, 

 very wrinkled, provided with a bone at the snout, and fur- 

 nished at its point, in the species, at least, the most known 

 with a naked disk, which encloses in its centre the opening 

 of the two nostrils, and the edge of which is furnished with 

 twenty cartilaginous moveable points granulated on their 

 surface. 



* If we consider the second incisive a canine tooth on account of its 

 strength, it will then be, incisors 1, canines i£, cheek-teeth §§. 

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