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XI K. Some curious Circumjlances ref peeling the two Ele- 

 phants brought to Paris from the Hague. From a late 

 French Journal. 



JL HE place for their reception had been long prepared. 

 It is a fpacious hall in the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory, well 

 aired and lighted. A ftove is placed in it to warm it during 

 the winter, and it is divided into two apartments, which 

 have a communication with each other by means of a large 

 door refembling a portcullis. The enclofure round thefe 

 apartments confifts of rails made of ftrong thick beams, and 

 a fecond enclofure, breaft-high, runs round them, to keep 

 the fpectators at fome distance, and preferve them from ac- 

 cidents. 



The morning after their arrival thefe animals were put 

 in poffeffion of their new habitation. The firft conducted 

 to it Was the male, who iflued from his cage with precau- 

 tion, and feemed lo enter his apartment with a degree of 

 fufpicion. His firft care was to reconnoitre the place. He 

 examined each bar with his trunk, and tried their folidity 

 by fliaking them. Care had been taken to place on the out- 

 fide the large fcrews by which they are held together. Thefe 

 lie fought out, and, having found them, tried to turn them, 

 but was not able. When he arrived at the portcullis, which 

 Separates the two apartments, he obferved that it was fixed 

 only by an iron bar, which rofe in a perpendicular direction. 

 He raifed it with his trunk, pufhed up the door, and entered 

 into the fecond apartment, where he received his breakfaft. 

 He ate it quietly, and appeared to be perfectly eafy. 



During this time people were endeavouring to make the 

 Female enter. We ftill recollect the mutual attachment of 

 thefe two animals, and with what difficulty they were parted, 

 and induced to travel feparately. From the time of their de- 

 parture they had not feen each other ; not even at Cambray, 

 where they paffed the winter. They had only been fenfible 

 that they were near neighbours. The male never lay down, 

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