Note 47 — Chapter VII

I have seen detached teeth, wherein the length of the root, or part imbedded in the jaw, tripled that of the exposed part, sinking four or five inches into the bone without any trace of anchylosis. Whether these huge tusks belonged to the upper or under maxillary, I do not pretend to say, though no specimen of the under jaw, which has ever come under my notice, would accommodate half of such a deep-sunk base.