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of large and powerful lips, indicated by the 

 uncommon sinuosity on the front of the lower 

 jaw), yet I am decidedly of opinion, since it 

 cannot be contradicted by a single fact, that 

 the Mammoth was exclusively carnivorous', by 

 which I mean, that he made use of no vege- 

 table food, but either lived entirely on fish 

 or flesh, and not improbably on shell-fish, if, 

 as there are other reasons to suppose, he par- 

 took in any degree of the amphibious nature. 



It has been observed that these teeth resem- 

 ble those of the Hyppopotamus ^ but very little 

 observation and comparison, between such of 

 them as were but little used and those worn 

 down with age, would have been sufficient 

 to satisfy the weakest judgment that they are 

 of a very different kind; those of the Hippo- 

 potamus being always in the adult animal 

 ground down horizontally, so as to present a 

 fiat surface to action, and only the hindmost 

 teeth in the young and middle aged Hyppo- 

 potamus shewing any appearance of rounded 

 protuberances, which, in fact, are always of 

 an irregular figure and having the enamel, 

 althoudi commencing on the outside as in the 



