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from the outside above to the inside beloWj 

 forms a greater angle than if the bones were 

 slender 5 in which case the crossing would 

 scarcely be observable : — perhaps it is more 

 remarkable in the Marnmoth than any other 

 animal. In the toes of the fore-feet the second 

 plalanges terminate with a little groove, which 

 indicates that the third phalanx, to which the 

 nail was attached, was susceptible of consi- 

 derable motion ; and that the nail probably 

 resembled that of the Hippopotamus rather 

 than the Elephant. Another variation from 

 the Elephant in the legs is, that the difference 

 in length between the thigh-bone and the tibia, 

 or, in other words, the distance from the 

 knee, above and below, is less remarkable in the 

 Elephant than in the Mammoth -, the thigh- 

 bone being longer^ and the "tibia shorter, than 

 those of the Elephant : hence the knee of the 

 Mammoth must have been more equally placed 

 between the body and the ground, especially 

 as it has already appeared from an examina- 

 tion of the ribs, that the body of the Mam- 

 moth must have been m.uch smaller compara- 

 tively than that of the Elephant. As we are 

 not in possession of the bones of any large 



