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The elephant is wholly fupported by vegetables > 
and the animal to which thefe grinding teeth belong, 
by their make and form, feemed defigned for the 
biting and breaking off the branches of trees and 
fhrubs for its fuftenance ; and if I may be allowed 
to conclude from analogy, that the great heavy un- 
weildy animals, fuch as elephants, and the rhino- 
ceros, &c. are not carnivorous, being unable, from 
want of agility and fwiftnefs, to purfue their prey, 
fo are wholly confined to vegetable food ; and for 
the fame reafon, this great creature, to which thele 
teeth belong, wherever it exifts, is probably fup- 
ported by browfing on trees and Ihrubs, and other 
vegetable food. 
Explanation of the Fig. in Tab. XXI. and XXII. 
Tab. XXI. is a fide view of a large pronged 
tooth, that weighed three pounds and three quarters, 
and was eighteen inches round, and four inches thick. 
It is now in the poffeffion of the Right Honourable 
Earl Bute. A. A. A. The prominences of the top 
or crown. B. B. B. The prongs by which it has 
been faftened in the lockets. 
Tab. XXII. reprefents the top of the tooth; 
A. A. A. are the finus’s, or concavities between 
B. B. B. and C. C. C. or the two rows of prominences 
that form the crown of the tooth. 
XLVIH. A 
