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from each other, namely, the giraffe and the antelope. Its teeth 
resemble those of the former animal, while in its four horns it 
resembles a certain antelope (Antilope quadricornis). The head 
in certain respects shows resemblances to that of the ox, but the 
upper lip must have been prolonged into a short proboscis, or 
trunk, like that of the tapir. The form and proportions of the 
jaw agree closely with the corresponding parts of a buffalo. But 
no known ruminant, fossil or existing, has a jaw of such large 
size, the average dimensions being more than double those of a 
buffalo. The skull is the best known part of the animal, but 
Captain Cautley came across some of the bones of the limbs. 
The Colossochelys atlas, ^ or gigantic fossil tortoise of India, 
supplies a fit representative of the tortoise which sustained the 
elephant and the infant world in the fables of the Pythagorean 
and Hindoo cosmogonies. It is highly interesting to trace back 
to its probable source a matter of belief like this, so widely con- 
^ Greek, Colossos, Colossus, and chelus^ tortoise. Atlas was supposed to 
sustain the world on his shoulders. 
