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difference betwixt Man and Brute, except, perhaps, in the degree 

 of Intelled:. 



Without denying the di(lin(5lion that I have laid down betwixt Scnfe 

 and Intellcd, and the application of that diRindion to the cafe of Man, 

 it may be faid that the compofition of the Brute is the fame as that of 

 Man, and that he has an Intelle6tual as well as a Senfitive Nature. 

 And for proof of this, many extraordinary inftances may be given 

 of things done by the Brute, which appear to exceed, not only the 

 natural fagacity of Man, but even what he can do by the arts and 

 fciences which he has acquired. A book has lately fallen into my 

 hands, which contains more curious particulars relating to the faga- 

 city of Brutes, particularly of Elephants, than any that 1 have feen. 

 it is the work of a French gentleman now living, who was long in 

 the Eaft Indies and other parts of Afia, and who appears to me to be 

 a man of very accurate obfervation *. The Dog, among us, (hows 

 wonderful fagacity ; and, when he is tamed and domefticated, does 

 things that are very like the adions of an intelligent creature. But 

 the Elephant has ftill more fagacity, and what w^e w^ould call better 

 natural parts ; for, according to this French gentleman's account of 



him, 



* The Book is entitled, mfn'is Ph'tlofoph'jques, fur les mocms de divers Anlmaux E- 

 trangersy 8ic, The Author does not fet down his name ; but, from the account he 

 gives of himfelf, it appears that he was an officer in the French fervice in the Eaft 

 Indies, and was much employed there both in war and in negociations v\rith the 

 princes of the country. He travelled a great deal in the courfe of thefe employments ; 

 and particularly, he made the journey from India to Europe by land twice. The 

 Book is printed in Paris in the year 1783, and was fent me from thence by a friend 

 of mine, who is there at prefent, Mr Andrew LumilUen, with a very polite card, in 

 which he telb me the name of the Author, but fays he choofes to conceal it. I take 

 this opportunity of publicly acknowledging this mark of attention in a Gentleman 

 whom I very much efteem both as a man of worth and a fcholar. He tells me, that, 

 though the Book is not elegantly written, the fafts related in it may be depended 

 upon i and, for my own part, I give the more credit to the fads that the Author 

 does not affect the ornaments of ftyle. 



