MEGATHERIUM. 
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^ shall not here enter on the unsettled ques- 
ons as to the precise age of the deposits in 
^ ich the Megatherium is found, or the causes 
^ y w 1 C 1 it has been extirpated ; my object is to 
- ow that die apparent incongruities of all its 
systems of wise and well 
rived adaptation to a peculiar mode of life. 
iich they are described by Cuvier the most 
^portant organ, of the Megatherium.’beginning 
tr n h*' advancing to tlw 
tmnk and extremities. 
rleud. 
The bones of the head (PI. 5. Fig. ,. a i „„„ 
hroa7bre“Ii") d " v“ ‘“S and 
zygomatic i the cheek from the 
Ihf A?d h ■“ore nearly with 
U e A, th wtth any other animal , this eLao. 
nary hone must have been auxiliary to the 
dvantage in giving motion to the lower jaw (d). 
stron (c) is so 
lioles^for so perforated with 
that wen P^®®oge of nerves and vessels, 
coiisirln supported some organ of 
an an- **^0: a long trunk was needless to 
Was n possessing so long a neck ; the organ 
pro ably a snout, something like that of 
