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in the Leverian tusk there is not the smallest 

 twist, and .but a gentle curve ; whereas in this 

 animal they are much more crooked in every 

 respect ; the consequence of which is, that as 

 the cavities for the reception of the tusks lie 

 more horizontal (from a similar direction be- 

 twien the teeth and the condyle of the neck), 

 the tusks are much more elevated, and the ends 

 pointing backwards. It is the opinion of many, 

 that these tusks might have been reversed in the 

 living animal, with their points downwards j but 

 as we know not the kind of enemy it had to 

 fear, we judged only by analogy in giving them 

 the direction of the elephant, especially as we 

 know of no other carnivorous animal with only 

 eight grinders and two tusks : Neither the tusk 

 itself, nor the cavities for the reception of them, 

 could assist in the determination, as they were 

 both very straight, and wrould equally answer 

 one way as the other. 



There is one bone less in the neck of this ani- 

 mal than in the elephant ; and we are confident 

 of having the whole, for two reasons ; i^^. The 

 neck-bones w^ere found with the first skeleton all 

 together, in their natural positions, and the first 

 bone of the back, with which the sixth vertebras 

 of the neck articulated as exactly as it did with 



