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From an examination of the teeth, it would 

 therefore appear that the Mammoth probably 

 fed in and about lakes, on such animals as 

 could not well escape him, and which would 

 not require much artifice or speed to be caught, 

 nothing more being necessary than his long 

 tusks and some powerful protuberant cartila- 

 genous instrument, for the purpose of taking 

 up his prey, whether, like the Elephant, it was 

 a nose elongated 5 or like the Walrus, it was 

 a large and powerful lip; or like the Ant-eater, 

 it was a long and powerful tongue. 



From the form of the animal otherwise, 

 we should imagine a lake and its neighbour- 

 hood to be its proper residence, without any 

 reference to the teeth ; but when both lead to 

 the same idea it derives two-fold strength. 

 Besides that the ribs (except those connected 

 with the scapula) are wonderfully deficient in 

 size and strength, and therefore not at all 

 calculated to bear any weight of stomach cor- 

 responding in size with such animals as de- 

 vour vast quantities, of vegetables, they are 

 evidently too small to accord even with the 



