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In this skeleton he discovered sufficient of the lower jaw to observe 
the peculiarities of its character. There existed six cervical vertebrae, 
the atlas only being wanting. Little of the scapula remained ; its im- 
pression was, however, to be seen. The humerus was nearly entire, and 
the fore-arm was composed of a separate radius and ulna, showing 
that this animal differed in this respect from the ruminating animals. 
From these remains it appeared, that this animal must have had at 
least sixteen, or perhaps, seventeen ribs, on each side ; a circumstance 
confirmatory of the opinion of this animal having been one of the 
pachydermata : but as the sternum was not discoverable, it could not 
be determined how many ribs had been attached to it. The dorsal 
vertebrae were mostly removed, nor could the number of the lumbar 
vertebrae be ascertained. The sacral and coccygaeal vertebra, with the 
pelvis, were lost. The femur was very imperfect ; but it could be deter- 
mined, that the tibia and fibula were distinct, as in the pachydermata. 
In at least four distant parts of France, at Paris, Montabusard, 
Buchsweiler, and Issel, the remains have been found of animals of 
the genus of Palseotherium ; some of which differed, in some respects, 
from those which have been already described. One of these animals, 
calculating from an astragalus found at Montabusard, appears to have 
been larger than even that which has been described as Palceotherium 
magnum. It appears to have been larger than that of the largest 
horse, and only about an eighth less than that of the rhinoceros. It 
is calculated to have been eight feet long, without its tail, and about 
five feet high at the withers. 
From some fragments of jaws obtained from the neighbourhood of 
Orleans, it was ascertained that those quarries contained the remains 
of an animal rather smaller than the P. medium , the teeth of which 
more resembled those of the rhinoceros, and still more those of the 
daman, than of the palseotherium. On the meeting of the two arcs 
or crescents, at the middle point of the W, the point was double, 
instead of being single, as in the palceotherium. From this, and other 
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