J5ABYR0USSA. 
and it's tail terminates in a tuft. It's body, 
likewise, is neither so heavy, nor so thick, as 
that of the Hog. It's hair is grey; mixed 
with red, and a little black. It's ears are short, 
and pointed. But tlie most remarkable charac- 
'ter, which distinguishes the Babyroussa from 
all other animals, consists in four large tusks, 
or canine teeth : the two shortest of which 
proceed, like those of the Wild Boar, from the 
under jaw ; and the two longest, piercing the 
cheeks, or rather the lips, from the upper jaw, 
extend in a curve above the eyes. These tusks 
are a beautiful ivory; which is cleaner and 
finer than, but not so hard as, that of the Ele= 
phant. 
The direction of the two superior tusks, 
w^hich first rise high, and then bend in the 
form of a circle, induced some able natural 
philosophers, such as Grew, to think that these 
tusks ought not to be regarded as teeth, but as 
horns. They founded their opinion on the 
circumstance that, in all animals, the sockets 
of tlie teeth in the upper jaw open downward ; 
and that, in the Babyroussa, all the sockets like- 
wise open downward, except those of the two 
great 
