APPENDIX. 
more flexible. There are five toes on the fore feet, the 
middle the largeft, falling off on each fide nearly equally ; 
but the fore, or inner toe, is rather fhorteft : they are thin 
from fide to fide, the nails are pretty broad, laterally, and 
thin at their bafe ; not very long but fharp ; the animal 
walks on its whole palm, on which there is no hair. The 
hind feet are pretty long, and have five toes ; that which 
anfwers to our great toe is very fhort, and has no nail ; the 
next is the longeft in the whole, falling gradually off to the 
outer toe ; the fhape of the hind toes is the fame as in the 
fore feet, as are likewife the nails ; it walks nearly on the 
whole foot. The tail is long and covered with long hair, 
but not all of the fame colour. 
The teeth of this creature are different from any other 
animal yet known. The mouth is full of teeth. The 
lower jaw narrow in comparifon to the upper, more efpecially 
backwards, which allows of much broader grinders in this 
jaw than in the lower, and which occafions the grinders in the 
upper jaw to project confiderably over thofe in the lower. 
In the middle the cufpidati oppofe one another, the upper 
piercers, or holders, go behind thofe of the lower ; the 
fecond clafs of incifors in the lower jaw overtop thofe of 
the 
