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and full grown Elephants, nor any of the large 

 quadrupeds, we are enabled to make but a 

 very imperfect comparison, by means of the 

 small ones usually to be met with -, but, from 

 what we have, there does not appear any other 

 remarkable difference in the legs except in 

 Xh^femori ; those of the Elephant being cylin- 

 drical, those of the Mammoth htmg fattened, 

 so that a cross section of. the former would 

 shew a circle, and of the latter a long oval. 

 The comparison which Daubenton made be- 

 tween the thigh-bones of the Asiatic Elephant, 

 the Siberian Elephant or Mammouth, and the 

 American Incognitum (since called Mammoth) 

 shewed three successive degrees of propor- 

 tionate bulks that of the modern Elephant 

 being the most slender, and that of the Ameri- 

 can animal the most bulky in an equal scale 

 of length. He likewise observed that those of 

 the latter were very considerably flattened, and 

 some variation in the direction of the neck 

 and the great trochanter. — The number of 

 bones in the legs and feet agree with the hu- 

 man skeleton. 



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