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It is evident from the structure and position 

 of these teeth, that they never could have been 

 used in grinding vegetables, but in crushing 

 or champing some hard and brittle substances, 

 such as shell-fish, &c. There are three facts 

 to prove that they did not grind the food : 

 I St. the interlocking of the conic processes: 

 2dly. their oblique direction, so that the ridges 

 or cavities on one side of thejav^ do not run 

 parallel with those on the other, which most 

 effectually prevents a lateral motion— this 

 important character has been entirely over- 

 looked—and 3dly. the condyloid processes, 

 which are transversely oblong, running perfectly 

 parallel With each (as true hinges) and working 

 in a groove, from which they cannot rotate. 



of the jaws, influencing the obliq^jlty of the profile, must 

 have given a singular rcclinatlon to the facial line, in dlmi- 

 nisliing the relative height of the vertical axis of the head.— 

 This Extinct species, as the first, was more analagous to the 

 Afi-ican Elephant than the Asiatic." 



On this paragraph I shall only remark, that his imaginary 

 plates do net exist in the teeth ; and that I know not what he 

 means by his '' double feuiUe de injier unless it is the outline 

 formed by the worn edges of t'ne enamel, as observed before ; 

 t)ut that his observations with respect to the contour of the 

 head are perfectly correct. 



