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declivity of the Oural mountains =*. Camper 

 denies that the animal is carnivorous, becaufe 

 the Incifores, or canine teeth, are wanting , and 

 he argues farther, from the weight of the head, 



weight of the 

 neck muft have been fhort. 



which may be inferred from the 



grinders, that the 



and the animal muft have been furnifhed with 



prohofcis, 

 hypothefi 



He afterwards abandoned the latter 

 and gave it as his opinion, that the 



incognitum was neither carnivorous, nor a fpecies 

 of the elephant f . 



410. Neverthelefs, Cuvier, in a mimoire read 

 before the National Inftitute of Paris, maintains, 

 that the foffil bones of the new continent, as well as 

 moft of thofe of the old, belong to certain fpecies of 



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the eleph 



of which, at leaft, two d 



ft, and are only known from remains preferved 

 the ground. He diftinguiflies them thus J: 



Eleph 



maxilla obtujiore, lamel 



lis rnolariinn tenuibus, reBis. 

 Elephas Americanus, — molaribus multicufpidi- 



bus J lamellis pojl detritionem quadri-lobatis. 

 The latter fpecies, which is meant to include 

 the animal incognitum, is faid to have lived, not 



only 



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* Afta Acad. Petrop. torn. i. (1777) pars poflerior, 

 p. 213, Sec. 



f Ihid. torn. ii. (1784) p. 262. 



X Memoires de Unftitut Natior^l, Sciences Phjfig^ues 



torn. ii. p. 19., &c. 



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