SPOTTED OPOSSUM. 
various forms of these teeth are adapted for,, 
from the general principles of teeth. In the 
front, we have what may divide and tear off — - 
behind those, there are holders or destroyers — 
behind the latter, such as will assist in mashing; 
as the gi inders of the Lion, and other carni- 
vorous animals — and, last of all, grinders to 
divide parts into smaller portions ; as in the 
gramenivorous tribes : the articulation of the 
jaw admits of all those motions." 
These animals, which seem, as before ob- 
served, except in colour, exactly the same, are 
remarkable for their slender form ; which cir- 
cumstance, added to the pointed visage, and 
long brushy tail,, gives them, at first view,, 
rather the appearance of the W easel than of 
the Opossum race. 
