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Elephant there is a vast distance between 

 them. In the Elephant, as in most other 

 quadrupeds, the socket of the eye is, as it 

 were, scooped out of the zygomatic process 

 at C. ; in the Mammoth that portion of the 

 bone at C. is sufficiently perfect to shew that 

 there is no such socket: the eye of the Mam- 

 moth, therefore, must have been higher than 

 the ear ; in the Elephant it is lower than the 

 ear. One consequence of this uncommon 

 situation of the teeth below the condyle of the 

 neck in the Elephant, is, that the arms of 

 the under jaw to the condyloid processes are 

 extremely long, insomuch, that the height of 

 the jaw is equal to the length ; whereas in the 

 Mammoth it has the more usual appearance of 

 length, with but short processes, the coronoid 

 being longer and thinner than the condyloid -, 

 but in the Elephant the reverse is the case : 

 the general form of the under jaw of this ani- 

 mal is made up of three distinct angles ; oh^ 

 horizontal, on which the jaw rests (when 

 placed on a table), from the front to the back^ 

 where a small corner appears cut off, whence 

 it rises perpendicularly to the condyle. The 

 same view of the Elephant's jaw exhibits very 



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