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Lary, in Couserans. But the most interesting specimens are, the two 
halves of a jaw, with five molar teeth in each, in the possession of M. 
Dree. These fossils were found at Comminge, by the side of Beine, 
five leagues from Alan, a castle of the Bishop of Comminge. Similar 
teeth are also said, by Fabbroni, to have been found in Italy. 
The teeth of the recent tapir are characterized by being divided by 
transverse risings ; but this character, Cuvier observes, is not sufficient 
to allow the attributing of any fossil teeth, with transverse ridges, to the 
tapir; since the same transverse risings on the crown are observable in 
the teeth of the lamantin ( Trichecus manatus ) , and in those of the kan- 
guroo. In the lamantin, the upper teeth have two large risings, and 
two smaller, or spur-like processes, one before, the other behind. On 
the lower teeth are three risings. These risings are, in the germ of 
the tooth, crenulated, both in the lamantin and in the fossil animal. 
Of the five molar teeth in M. Dree’s fossil, the foremost has only one 
ridge, which is flat ; but the four last have two ridges, with a spur 
behind, which is largest in the hindermost teeth. The animal to 
which these teeth belonged, could not, as M. Cuvier observes, have 
been very aged, since the ridges are not much worn, and since one 
tooth, at least, was wanting in this jaw. This is, however, assumed 
on the supposition that the tooth found at Vienna, belonged to a similar 
animal. This tooth has three ridges and a spur-like process ; and in 
that case, would have been placed behind these ; since in herbivorous 
animals, the teeth composed of the most pieces are always behind the 
rest. The tooth found at St. Lary, and which agrees in the appear- 
ance of its enamel and matrix, with those of M. Dree, has also three 
ridges, which confirms the opinion of this animal having six molar 
teeth on each side. Reckoning from the size of the molar teeth of the 
fossil animal, it is supposed that it must have been one-fourth taller 
than the rhinoceros. But, by the same made of reckoning, it would 
have been five times longer than the known lamantin, and eight times 
larger than the kanguroo, supposing it to have had the same propor- 
tions as the species to which it may be imagined to belong. 
