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that when once he has received an injury, or been in bondage, and afterwards efcapes, it is 

 not pofTible, by any art, again to entrap him. Great as my partiality is for this noble animal, 

 whofe modes of life and general fagacity I have had fo many opportunities of obferving, yet a 

 regard to truth compels me to mention fome faCls, which contradift that opinion. The 

 following hiftory of an elephant taken by Mr. Leelce*, of Longford Hall, Shropfhire, con- 

 tains many interefting particulars on this fubjedl. The elephant was a female, and was taken 

 at firft, with a herd of many others, in the year 1765, by Rajah Kifliun Maunick f, who, 

 about fix months after, gave her to Abdoor Rezah, a man of fom* rank and confequence in the 

 diftrid. In 1767, the Rajah fent a force againft this Abdoor Rezah, for fome refraftory 

 condudt, who, in his retreat to fhe hills, turned her loofe into the woods, after having ufed 

 her above two years, as a riding elephant. In January, 1770, fhe was retaken by the Rajah ; 

 but, in April, 1771, fhe broke loofe from her pickets, in a ftormy night, and efcaped to the 

 hills. On the 25th of December, 1782, flie was driven by Mr. Leeke's elephant hunters into 

 a keddah J; and, the day following, when Mr. Leeke went to fee the herd that had been fe- 

 cured, this elephant was pointed out to him by the hunters, and particularly by a driver who 

 had charge of her for fome time, and Will recolle£ted her. They frequently called to her 

 by name ; to which {he feemed to pay fome attention, by immeoiiately looking towards them, 

 when her name, Juggut-Peaurce-, was repeated ; nor did (he appear like the wild elephants, 

 which were conftantJy running about the keddah in a rage, but feemed perfectly reconciled to 

 her fituation. 



• He was then the rcfident of Tiperah, and took feme pains to afcertaln the fafls here mentioned. 



■J- The Rajah is the principal Zemindar in the province of Tiperah, paying the ufual revenue for his lands 

 . in the low country ; but, in the hills he is an independent fovereign, has the power of life and death over 

 his fubjefts, a mint, and other infignia of fuvereignty. 



% The inclofure in which elephants are fecurcd. Fide Afiatic Refearches, Vol. III. Art. " Method of 

 catching Elephants," 



(To be concluded hereafter.) 



PHILOSOPHICAL NEWS AND ACCOUNTS OF BOOKS. 

 Experiments on the Vibrations cf Plates of Glafs. By Profsffor Chladni, of Berlin. 



Xn the year 1787, M. Chladni publiflied, at Leipzic, a'work in German, entitled, Difco- 

 veries refpeaing the Theory of Sound ; in which he announces, that if glafs, fprinkled with fine 

 powder, be made to found, this powder will be fo diftributed by the efFeft of the vibrations, 

 as to form very remarkable figures, which are conftantly produced under fimilar circum- 

 ftances. 



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