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Ears, greatest breadth, 

 Ditto circumference at their base, 

 Horns, their length following their curve, 

 Circumference at their base. 

 Distance between them in front, 

 Neck, circumference at the flioulders, 

 Ditto at the the head, 

 'Trunk, circumfci ence at the fore 'egs. 

 Ditto at the largest [art of the m ddle, - 

 Ditto at the hind legs, _ _ _ 



To be continaed. 



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REAIJNG MEMORANDUMS; 



VVoE to the marble h arted hilosophers, who in- 

 sult real sorrow by their pretended consolation, 

 which the bosom of the afflicted ie just as able to 

 receive, as the lips of the dead are to open for a 

 cordial I The only way I believe to triumph over 

 true grief of heart, is to indulge \t in all the vehe- 

 hemence of its foni des'res or sorrows. Grief is a 

 noble imperious pafsion that ought not to be thwar- 

 ted ; but to be flattered and indulged. 



That " this is a strange world," mortals often ex- 

 claim, there is truth in the cbservaiion. Yet what 

 i' -t but our strange humourr, which makes \X 



