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ELEPHANTS.
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implanted two tusks, which project from the jaw
and curve upwards, frequently attaining a great
length and magnitude. The size of the sockets
in which these tusks are imbedded, renders the
upper jaws so high and so shortens the bones of
the nose, that in the skeleton the nostrils are situated nearly at the top of the face; but during
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SECTION OF THE ELEPHANT’S SKULL.
life they are prolonged into a tubular proboscis, which we shall presently describe. The skull is large and greatly elevated, but the size of the
