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ELEPHANT. 
not flat and ribbed tranfverfely on their furface like 
thofe of the recent elephant, but furnifhed with a 
double row of high and conic procefles, as if in¬ 
tended to mafticate, not to grind their food. 
A third difference is in the thigh bone : which is 
of a great difproportionable thicknefs to that of the 
elephant, and has alfo fome anatomical variations. 
The tufks have been cut and polifhed by the 
workers in ivory, who affirmed, that in texture and 
appearance they differed not from the true ivory: 
the molares were indurated to a great degree. Spe¬ 
cimens of thefe teeth and bones are depofited in the 
Britiflo Mufeum , that of the Royal Society , and in 
the cabinet of Dodor Hunter *. I fhould have 
been lefs accurate in this defcription, had not that 
gentleman favored me with his obfervations on fome 
particulars, which otherwife might have efcaped my 
notice. 
Thefe foffil bones are alfo found in Peru , and in 
the Brazils : as yet the living animal has evaded 
our fearch ; it is more than probable that it yet 
exifts in fome of thofe remote parts of the vafl new 
continent, unpenetrated yet by Europeans . Provi¬ 
dence maintains and continues every created fpe- 
cies •, and we have as much aflurance, that no race 
of animals will any more ceafe while the Earth re- 
maineth, than Jeed time , and harveft , cold and heat , 
fummer and winter , day or night . 
* Who has obliged the world with an ingenious effay on the 
fubjeft, <vide Pfu Tr. Vol. LVIIL 34. The late worthy Pettr 
Collinfon , in the preceding volume, gave us other notices oi thefe 
bones. 
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