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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



At the fame time, Dr Hunter's aflertion, that th 



animal was carnivorous, is 



dered doubtful 



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not only by the want of canine teeth, but alfo 

 from the refemblance between its grinders and 

 hofe of the wild boar, which Mr Home has ob- 

 ferved to be confiderable ^. The grinder of the 

 boar is fimilar to that of the elephant, in the ex- 



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tent of the mafticating furface, but not at all in 

 the internal ftruclure; and the llime is true of the 

 tooth of the cmimal incognitum, fo that a confidera- 

 ble probability is eftablifhed, that it and the boai 



3f the ft 

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d both deftined 



,ble food 



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Another animal incognitim found in South 



America has been defcrihed by C 

 pears to be of a different genus from th 



and ap 



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f the North 

 ^ita of Amt 



Thus, if we include the 



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elep 



mammonteuSj 



the 



nk 



buffalo of Pallas, and the great 



mal of Bayreuth 



have at leaft fi 



ftinft jjenera, or fpecies of the animal kingdo 



hich exifted 



continents formerly, but 



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ft on 



m now 



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is 



Pallas mentions foffil 



icies : and 



probably much greater : 

 horns of a gazelle, of an unknown fp 

 horns 01 deer are often found, that cannot be 

 ferred to any fpecies now exilling 



Thofe ex- 

 tinct 



* Obfervations on the grinding teeth of the vnld boar 



and animal incognitum 



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