APPENDIX. 
and clofe to the incifors. There are three cufpidati, the 
middle one the largeft, the laft the leaft ; thefe are cones 
(landing on their bafe, but not on the middle, rather on the 
anterior fide. There are four grinders, the two middle the 
largeft, and rather quadrangular, each of which has a high 
point or cone on the outer edge, with a fmaller, and three 
more diminutive on the inner edge. It is impoflible to fay- 
critically, what the various forms of thefe teeth are adapted 
for from the general principles of teeth. In the front we 
have what may divide and tear off ; behind thofe, there are 
holders or deftroyers; behind the latter, fuch as will affift in 
mafhing, as the grinders of the lion, and other carniverous 
animals; and laft of all, grinders, to divide parts into fmaller 
portions, as in the graminiverous tribe : the articulation of 
the jaw in fome degree admits of all thofe motions. 
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