CAMEL. 



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lower jaw of the skull, a fragment of which is represented 

 in fig. 1 of Plate XVIII. The mass from which these re- 

 mains were recovered was carefully broken up by ourselves, 

 and the broken pieces united afterwards. A great portion 

 of the cranium appears to have been disintegrated and so 

 mixed up with the matrix as to make all attempts at a 

 separation ineffectual. The anterior part of the lower jaw 

 has suffered in this way, but the extreme good fortune of 

 rescuing that portion represented in the figures above 

 alluded to, consisting of the rami of both the right and 

 left side, with the condyles and coronoid processes entire, is 

 ample compensation for the loss, more especially as the inci- 

 sive extremity was already in our possession, and we were 

 only in want of the articulating and coronoid processes to 

 complete the jaw. The difference in form of the fossil will 

 be observed on a reference to fig. 5,^ which is a representa- 

 tion of the lower jaw of the existing Camel. In giving the 

 measurements, we place in juxta-position those of the Hissar 

 and Suharanpoor Camels before referred to. 



The fossil ramus has more the form of that of the Ox than 

 of the Camel ; the slenderness of its proportions resembles 

 that of the Cervidoe more than of the Camelidce, to which it 

 belongs; and were it not for the heel or step on the posterior 

 ascending margin, which as the generic mark establishes its 

 position, we should have been at some loss in recognizing as 

 the remain of a Camel, a fragment bearing in its external ap- 

 pearance so strong a resemblance to the Ox, Deer, or Antelope. 

 Independently of the heel, the Camel now existing is rather 

 peculiarly formed in this part, in comparison with other 

 Ruminants. The Buffalo is that which has the nearest 

 approach to it. In the existing Camel the ascending branch 



See note, p. 233.— [Ed.] 



