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bodies of beasts of prey in general, which^ 

 succulent as their food maybe, are frequently 

 under the necessity of eating voraciously. In 

 the Mammoth, after observing that the teeth 

 are admirably calculated for mastication, ue 

 cannot but be astonislied at the smaUness of 

 the opening into the chest through the first 

 pair of ribs, the smallness of the body about 

 the loins, and the narrow outlet through the 

 pelvis 3 all which circumstances, in conjunction 

 with the astonishing strength of the fore-legs, 

 to enable so large an animal to displace a 

 denser medium than air, lead to the idea, that 

 these great animals must have inhabited or 

 frequented the great lakes of America, which 

 we have reason to think were even more nu- 

 merous and larger than they are at present. 



That their remains should always be found 

 in morasses, which evidently have been lakes, 

 or in those situations where lakes must neces- 

 sarily have been, has appeared to many a suf- 

 ficient proof of their having inhabited such 

 places : but although I believe they did, ir does 

 not appear necessary to induce this inference 

 from a fact that may be otherwise accounted 



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