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ing this animal, he is also inclined to suppose that its food must have 
been similar to that of the hippopotamus and the boar, but preferring 
the roots and fleshy parts of vegetables ; in the search of which species 
of food it would, of course, be led to such soft and marshy spots as he 
appears to have inhabited. It does not, however, appear to have been at 
all formed for swimming, or for living much in the waters, like the hip- 
popotamus, but rather seems to have been entirely a terrestrial animal. 
Other teeth, bearing a very close analogy with those of the animal 
of the Ohio, have been long noticed by different authors ; but it is to 
M. Cuvier that we are indebted for collecting and comparing the dif- 
ferent accounts which have been given of teeth belonging to this 
genus, but which have been found in different places on the two con- 
tinents, and are of a different species than those of the Ohio. 
Dr. Grew, in 1681, in his History of the Rarities of Gresham, Plate 
xix. Fig. 1, figured the upper part of one of these teeth, which he de- 
scribes as the petrified tooth of a marine animal. Reaumur figured 
part of a tooth from Simorre, in Gascony, somewhat resembling this, 
in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, for 1715. D’Argenville 
has figured an entire tooth resembling these, Oryctologie, PI. xvm. 
Fig. 8, and which he described as having belonged to some unknown 
fish. A similar tooth is also represented in PI. vm. of the Supplement 
to Knorr’s work. J. Baldessari, in 1767? described and figured, in 
the Memoirs of the Academy of Sienna, Tome in. p. 243, two con- 
siderable portions of a lower jaw found at Monte Follonico, and con- 
sidered them as similar to those described by M. Guettard. A tooth 
of this kind, of a large size, was found in 1784, at Trevoux, and 
considered by M. de Morveau, Mem. de V Acad, de Dijon, Tome vi. 
p. 102, as being of the same species as those from the Ohio. 
Besides these now mentioned, M. Cuvier was surprised to find, by his 
correspondence, that these teeth were not unknown in several other 
parts of Europe and America. In Sort, near to Dax ; Montabusart, 
near to Orleans; Saxony; Asti, in Piedmont; the Yale of Arno; 
