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be acquired when in a narrow confinement. 

 There can be no doubt, then, of their having 

 been ^/j^^ against the ground 5 and not im- 

 probably in rooting up shell-fish, or in climb- 

 ing the banks of rivers and lakes. 



NECK. 



The bones of the neck do not materially 

 differ from those of the Elephant, except 

 that the spinous processes of the fifth, sixth, 

 and seventh, are not so long as in the Ele- 

 phant. 



BACK. 



The second, third, and fourth dorsal ver* 

 tebrae are crowned with immensely long and 

 thick processes, which rise perpendicularly over 

 the shoulders, as in the Hog : from the fourth, 

 the spinous processes decrease rapidly to the 

 twelfth 3 and from thence to the sacrum, in- 

 cluding the lumber vertebra, they are scarcely 

 to be seen. This conformation differs remark- 

 ably from the Elephant, which has a greater 



