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only in America, but in many parts of the old 



continent. Yet fome late inq 



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into the 



ftruilure of the teeth of graminivorous anima 

 and particularly of the elephant, 



make 



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mprobable that the incognitum has belonged tp 



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The grinders of the elephant h 



been found to confiil 



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mel, bone, and what is called the crujla petrofa 

 applied in layers, or folds contiguous to one ano- 

 ther ; and no veflige of this ftrudure appears ii 

 the grinders of the unknown animal of the Ohio f 



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* See Mr Home's obfervations on^he teeth of gramini- 

 vorous animals, Phil. Tranf. 1799. Alfo, An Effay on 

 the ftrudure of the teeth, by Dr Blake. 



f In a paper inferted in thd fourth volume of the A- 

 merican Philofophical Tranfaaions, an account is given 

 of two different grinders that are found at the Salt-Licks 

 near the Ohio. One of them refembles tlie grinder of 



the elephant, and 



may 



belonged to the elephas 



Americanus of Cuvier ; the other agrees pretty nearly 

 with the grinder of Dr Hunter's animal incogniti^m. The 

 author of the paper thinks that the animal inognit urn was 

 not wholly carnivorous, as the inciforeny or canine teeth, 

 are never found. At the 



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kind 



been dlfcovered. The faline impregnation of the earth 



cks muft 



fervation of the bones. Tranf Am 

 vol. iv. (1799) p. 510, &e. 



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