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Ihe structure of the scapula, already noticed, 
ms to show that the fore leg was adapted to 
operate with the tusks and teeth, in digging 
separating large vegetables from the bottom. 
I>>e great length attributed to the body, would 
livina in*d mconvenient to an animal 
chaotic a 7'“’ ‘ *** me- 
hirh- characters of a gigantic 
herbivorous, aquatic quadruped, we vHoJt 
adaptations to the lacustrine condition of thi 
to;L::h?:!:i‘::e:;if 
-ions creatures appears .„h:v\rn‘S.:r 
SECTION II, 
megatherium. 
As It will be quite impossible, in the present 
rea ise, to give particular descriptions^ the 
life hv .1 ^ '■^stored again to 
•fe by the genius and industry of Cuvier- I shall 
^h^ details of’alL^e 
that hu H ^ analytical investigation, 
to the ^ 'Applied by that great philosopher 
anatomy both of fossil and recent animals. 
Occ his researches, as recorded in the 
O^eniens Fossiles. has been to show that all 
