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ent form from those of the elephant, which are 

 high in comparison with their breadth; and con- 

 sequently the rump of this animal was even more 

 depressed than the elephant's, in the manner of 

 the American bison or buffaloe. In the ele- 

 phant the angles from the ossce tabulce to the 

 lateral processes of the ilium, are very great ; 

 whereas in the Mammoth they are almost on a 

 straisfht line. 



From all the drawings of elephants, and from 

 such of their real ribs as I have seen, I have ob- 

 served one universal character ; towards their 

 junction with the cartilage they are broad and 

 more or less bent sidewise in an undulating form; 

 whereas those of the Mammoth are very small 

 in the same place, and in form without any la- 

 teral bend. 



In the Mammoth the spinus processes are 

 much longer and thicker, in proportion with the 

 rest of the animal, than they are in the elephant, 

 whose head is drawn up close to them by the 

 ligaments attached to the deep cavity in the 

 back of the head before-mentioned ; in the 

 Mammoth this cavity being situated higher from 

 the condyle of the neck and attached to much 

 longer spines, must act with an advantage pro- 



