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mals, either grass or leaves. These teeth were 

 supposed by some writers, Buffon, Croghan and 

 Collinson among others, to have been the teeth 

 of the hippopotamus, deposited in these places, 

 together with the remains of elephants, in the 

 general deluge ; but they are very different from 

 those of the hippopotamus, the largest of which 

 have only three obtuse points composing the 

 surface, arranged triangularly ; whereas the 

 smallest teeth in this animal have three rows of 

 double points arranged parallel to each other, 

 and the largest ones four and five in the same 

 manner. 



Although a simple comparison between the 

 teeth of this animal and the elephant be suf- 

 ficient to prove that the former is as certainly 

 of a carnivorous as the latter of a gramin- 

 ivorous nature, yet the anatomist in examining 

 further, will find complete satisfaction, from 

 the internal structure of the jaw, as well as the 

 position and growth of the teeth. I shall only 

 observe here, that in the jaw of this animal, like 

 those of all others of a carnivorous nature, the 

 roots or fangs are inserted into the mass of bone, 

 which not only surrounds the roots, but divides 

 one tooth from the other ; whereas in the ele- 

 phant the grinders occupy one large and uni- 



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