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comprised between the condyle of the neck and 

 the sockets for the tusks, the temporal bone, 

 zygomatic process, and the teeth: this, there- 

 fore, compared with the corresponding por- 

 tion of the elephant's head *, taking the level 

 of the teeth in both as a base line from which 

 to measure, will be found comparatively much 

 longer for its height -f*. In the Mammoth J the 

 sockets of the tusks at A. to the condyle of 

 the neck B. is nearly a horizontal line ; in the 

 Elephant, a line betv/een the same parts, forms 

 with the horizon, an angle of nearly 45 de- 

 grees. In the Mammoth, a line from the 

 zygomatic process at C. to the condyle of the 

 neck B. descends as much as it rises in the Ele- 

 phant, producing a difference comprised within 

 an angle of 45 degrees. In the Mammoth, the 

 condyle of the neck is situated very nearly 

 upon a line with the level of the teeth : in the 

 Elephant it is as much above the teeth as it is 

 distant from the frontal bone; consequently 

 the ear of the Pvlammoth is very Httle above 

 the horizontal line of the teeth, and in the 



* See the plate, figure I. 



t This proportion is taken notice of by Camper, in his late 

 folio work on the anatomy of the elephant, page 24. 

 X Figure 11. 



