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Surface is broke off at k. k fo that it weighs fomewhat 
lefs ; yet what remains exadlly (hews the lame kind of 
Work and Shape of the other Tooth, that anfwer’dit on 
the right Side. 
Thefe Four Teeth here defcrib’d, fully compleat the Sett 
of the Teeth, wherewith Nature has furnifhed the lower 
Jaw of the Elephant ; and are anfwered by juft as many 
more, formed after the fame manner in the upper Jaw, 
as Dr. Moulins informs us, who differed the Elephant that 
Was burnt here at Dublin in 1 68 r- In it’s Anatomy p - 40. 
fpeaking of the Teeth he affures, there were befides 
the T usks only four Teeth in each Jaw, two in every fide : 
and that thefe eight Teeth were all Molares , fo that he had 
no Incifores. 
But norwithftanding this, perhaps it will be faid, we 
may not haftily conclude from hence, that our Great 
Teeth dug up in Ireland muft certainly have been the Four 
Grinders of an Elephant , fince they might as well belong to 
Tome other large kind of Terrestrial ox. Marine Animal. As 
for the Hint of their being human or glgantick , ’tis fo 
groundlefs a Thought, and fo contradictory to compara- 
tive Anatomy and all Natural Hijiory , it does not deferve 
our Confideration. 
To obviate this, I fhall take notice firft in general, that 
the differing Kinds of living Creatures, wherewith Na- 
ture has flock’d the World, are not more diftinguifh’d 
by the Make of any part of their Bodies from one ano- 
ther than by the various Shape and Difpofition of their 
Teeth : and hence it is, we (hall not find any two diftincft 
Claffes of Animals that do exa&ly agree in the fame 
Make and Ranging of their Teeth. 
But yet to be more particular, and make this Point fo 
plain, I hope, as that it may admit of no Controverfy, 
I lhall here fet down at length, as I find them, the 
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