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Chapter XIV. 
oofs of Design hi the Structure of Fossil 
Vertebratecl Animals. 
SECTION I. 
fossil mammalia.— DINOTHERIUM. 
Enough has, I trust, been stated in the preced- 
nm chapter, to show the paramount importance 
^haTb^^ iwg to organic remains, in illustration of 
Uat branch of physico-theology with which we 
are at present occupied. 
The smicture of the greater number, even of 
esLntw'oo- Tf few 
atives ot then respective Orders, that I forbear 
offe^ little thT- 
that IS not equally discoverable in the 
natomy ot existing species. I shall, therefore. 
whLVi“^r‘““* 8“-: 
fossil Mam remarkable of all 
Parities unexampled pecu- 
these the construction ; the first of 
terrestriarM 
Me-mthe • ^"^™oha ; and the second, the 
to rium, presenting greater deviations from 
