Method of Catching Wild Elephants. 5 



and others like ferruginous pyrites covered with an efilorcf- 

 oence hy the action of the atmofphere and water. The 

 ■above-mentioned fubftanees muft be confidered as the prin- 

 cipal caufes of the violent commotions which appear in this 

 crater. They are Supplied from a large Stratum of pyrites j 

 and from the violence of the combuaion, \vc mav conjecture 

 that it muft be very deep. It is probable alfo that this 

 ftratum is of considerable extent, for verv hot fprings are 

 found at the distance of a mile both to the north and South 

 of the volcano. Such fubftanees accumulated m different 

 parts of the earth, when accidentally combined with other 

 lubftances, fuch as air, water, and inflammable bodies, pro- 

 duce earthquakes and other convulsions of nature. Though 

 the internal re-aclion of thefe fubftanees on one another 

 kerns to threaten danger, it however occasions no da* 

 ffeage to the colony, becaufe they have immediate commu- 

 nication with the atmofphere, and the whole foil is pene- 

 trated by water fo that it cannot take fire : neither are 

 coal, bitumen, or fuch inflammable bodies found in the 

 3 eighbourhobdL 



J[. Account of the Method of Catching Wild Elephants at 

 Tipura* in the Eajl Indies. By John C.ORSE, Efq. From 

 The Afiatic Refearches. 



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N the month of November, when the weather has be- 

 come cool, and the fwamps and marines, formed bv the 

 rains in the five preceding months, are leflened, and fome of 

 them dried up, a number of people are employed to go in 

 <pieft of elephants. 



At this fealori the males come from the recedes of the 

 foreft into the borders and outfkirts thereof, whence they 



* The ancient name of tlic province was Trifufet, or wifb three 10ivn< x 

 i tin corrupted into Tipra or Tij 



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