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THE TERTIARY AGE, AND 
science ; but it was not till complete specimens 
were actually found of animals corresponding per- 
fectly to those figured and described by Cuvier, 
and proving beyond a doubt their actual exist- 
ence in ancient times, that all united in wonder 
and admiration at the result obtained by him 
with such scanty means. 
It would seem that the family of Pachyderm 
was largely represented among the early Mam- 
malia ; for, since Cuvier named these species, a 
number of closely allied forms have been found 
in deposits belonging to the same epoch. Of 
course, the complete specimens are rare ; but the 
fragments of such skeletons occur in abundance, 
showing that these old-world Pachyderms, re- 
sembling the Tapirs more than any other living 
representatives of the family, were very numerous 
in the lower Tertiaries. 
There is, however, one animal now in exist- 
ence, forming one of those singular links before 
alluded to between the present and the past, of 
which I will say a few words here, though its re- 
lation is rather with a later group of Tertiary 
Pachyderms than with those described by Cuvier. 
On the coast of Florida there is an animal of very 
massive, clumsy build, long considered to be a 
Cetacean, but now recognized, by some natural- 
ists at least, as belonging to the order of Pach- 
yderms. In form it resembles the Cetaceans, 
