 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...an animal of five or six times the cubic volume of the elephant, as Mons. de Buffon has admitted. 2- The grinders are five times as large, are square,...of blunt points : whereas those of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat. 3. I have never heard an instance, and suppose there... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 310 pages
...cubic volume of the elephant, as M. de Buffon has admitted. 2. The grinders are much larger, perfectly square, and the grinding surface studded with, four...of blunt points ; whereas those of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat. 3. I have never heard an instance of an elephant's... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1807 - 506 pages
...skeleton of the mammoth bespeaks an animal of five or six times the ruble volume of the elephant ; that the grinders are five times as large, are square,...rows of blunt points, whereas those of the elephant nix broad and thin, and their grinding «urfnce flat » that • he native* describe this animal as... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...skeleton of the mammoth bespeaks an anima! of five or six times the cubic volume of the elephant ; that the grinders are five times as large, are square,...of blunt points, whereas those of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat : that the natives describe this animal as still existing... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...of the mammoth bespeaks an animal of five or six times the cubit volume of the elephant ; and that the grinders are five times as large, are square,...of blunt points, whereas those of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat." To mention all the hypotheses and fables which this... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...skeleton of the mammoth bespeaks an animal of five or six times the cubic volume of the elephant ; that the grinders are five times as large, are square,...the grinding surface studded with four or five rows pf blunt points, whereas those of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...volume of the elephant, as Mons. de Buffon has admitted. 2. The grinders are five times as large, arc square, and the grinding surface studded with four...of blunt points, whereas those of the elephant are broad and tinn, and the grinding surface flat. 3. I have never heard an instance, (and suppose there... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...hasadmitted. 2. The grindeis are five times ;IR large, are square, and the grinding surface studded with lour or five rows of blunt points: whereas those of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat. 3. I have never heard an instance, and suppose there... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...bespeaks an animal of five or six times the cubic volume of the elephant, as M. de Buffon has admitted. 2. The grinders are five times as large, are square,...studded with four or five rows of blunt points : whereas •hose of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat. 3. I have never h««l... | |
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The grinders are five times as large, are square, and the grinding surface studded with four or five rows of blunt points; whereas those of the elephant are broad and thin, and their grinding surface flat. 
