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dom of Quito, at an elevation of 1200 fathoms. The other 

 kind, also squared, are about a third less in size ; they were 

 also discovered by M. de Humboldt in South America. 



In Europe, also, two teeth were found, which appeared too 

 small to the Baron to be classed with any of the preceding 

 species. One was sent from Saxony, but its position was un- 

 known ; the other from the neighbourhood of Orleans. The 

 last Was found in a quarry of fresh-water Hmestone, full of 

 shells, &c., and the remains of the palaeotherium. Its pro- 

 minences, simply notched, are not so exactly divided into two 

 points as those of the preceding. This might make us suppose 

 another additional species. These prominences not divided 

 show some relation with the teeth of the great tapir, but still 

 cannot proceed from that genus, whose prominences are more 

 separated, and whose numerous and small indentations bear no 

 resemblance to nipples. 



Thus, independently of the great mastodon, and that with 

 narrow teeth, we find indications of four other species. The 

 Baron would call the two from America, when their characters 

 are determined, the mastodon of the Cordilleras, and the mas- 

 todon of Humboldt. To the first, of the European kind, he 

 w^ould give the name of little mastodon ; to the second, whose 

 hillocks, or prominences, are not completely divided into nipples, 

 that of tapir oidian mastodon. 



The Fossil Hippopotamus. 



The hippopotamus has always been one of those larger qua- 

 drupeds whose history has remained in a state of obscurity, and 

 even still is but imperfectly known. Bochart has imagined it 

 to be the behemoth of the book of Job, but its description in 

 that book is too vague to admit of any definite conclusions. 

 The one given by Aristotle of his hippopotamus is so very 

 utilike the animal in question, that it is perfectly inexplicable. 

 He gives it the stature of the ass, the mane and voice of the 

 horse, and the divided hoof of the ox, and says that its astra- 



