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hi b. b. b. b. b . b. are white, rough, indented Borders, 
Seven in Number, of an irregular Shape, rifing about the 
tenth of an Inch higher than the hard black ill ining Sur- 
face of the Tooth ; this rough raifed Work ferves for the 
bruifing and grinding the Animal' s Food, the tough 
Grains of Rize, Leaves, Fruits and the Boughs of Trees; 
and is made of fo extream an hard Texture, that it 
refembles large knotted Threads of white 6 lafs, laid on 
and clofely faftnedro the dark Superficies of rhe Tooth: 
and anfwers that glaffy Surface wherewith Nature has ar- 
med theOutfideof the Teeth of mofl Animals, to prevent 
their wearing from the conftant Attrition in Chewing of 
their Foods. 
c. c. c. c , c. is that part of the Tooth which rifes above 
theGumms, and continues even now diftinguifh’d from 
the reft of the Bone, by having its Colour of a different 
Shade. 
d. d. d. d d. d. d. are many ftrong Tangs or Roots, 
feemingly united altogether, by which the Tooth recei- 
ved its Senfe and Nourifhment, and tho’ it was fo large 
and ponderous, by thefe it kept firmly fixt into the Jaw* 
For the Mechanifm Nature fhews it felf to have follow- 
ed in framing the Teeth of this Animal , is no more than 
this." whereas in other Creatures, fhe has divided that 
bony Subjlance wherewith they chew their Food, each 
having its peculiar Roots to fecure its Articulation in 
the Jawbone: fine has in this of fo great Bulk fAs Pliny 
the Naturalijl fliles it Terrefirium maximum Elephas ,) for 
the greater Strength, Stabiliment, and Duration of it’s 
Teeth , and the better to provide for a compleat Attrition 
of the Aliment, in order to perfed the Digeflion fo tho- 
roughly, as to fuftain the Life of the Animal for two or 
three hundred Years, (as it is a common received Opini- 
on in the Eajl ) She has, 1 fay, contrived to make the Sub- 
ihnceof the Teeth in their Roots below, and in their up- 
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