APPENDIX. 
the upper while the two firft in the lower go within, or 
behind thofe of the upper. In the upper jaw, before the 
holders, there are four teeth on each fide, three of which are 
pointed, the point ftanding on the inner furface; and the 
two in front are longer, ftand more obliquely forwards, 
and appear to be appropriated for a particular ufe. The 
holders are a little way behind the laft fore teeth, to allow 
thofe of the lower jaw to come between. They are pretty 
long, the cufpidati on each fide become longer and larger 
towards the grinders , they are points or cones placed on a 
broad bafe. 
There are four grinders on each fide, the middle two the 
largeft, the laft the leaft ; their bafe is a triangle of the fca- 
lenus kind, or having one angle obtufe and two acute. 
Their bafe is compofed of two furfaces, an inner and an 
outer, divided by procefies or points : it is the inner that 
the grinders of the lower jaw oppofe, when the mouth is 
regularly fhut. The lower jaw has three fore teeth, or inci- 
fors, on each fide; the firft confiderably the largeft, projed:- 
ing obliquely forwards ; the other two of the fame kind, but 
fmaller, the laft the fmalleft. 
The holder in this jaw is not fo large as in the upper jaw, 
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