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those of the Mammoth are extremely narrow 

 at the cartilage, thick and strorig towards their 

 head, and bent perfectly edgewisey standing a 

 little obliquely, and without any lateral bend *, 

 The first pair are so remarkable in their form 

 as to appear, especially when seen detached, 

 more like clavicles^ being (unlike the rest of 

 the ribs) excessively bulky and broad towards 

 the cartilage, and crossing the breast-bone at 

 right anglesy reducing to a very small size and 

 curious figure the entrance into the chest. — 

 The first six pair of ribs are remarkably strong, 

 especially compared with the remainder, which 

 are extremely small and comparatively weak j 

 and the whole of them so shorty that the body 

 must have been of a very small proportionate 

 magnitude. — The ribs are 19 pair. 



LEGS AND FEET. 



As well as can be determined from the 

 drawings and skeletons of Elephants, which are 

 all of a small size in England, and therefore 



* See the plate, figure VI. 



