THE ELEPHANT OF INDIA. 121 



In Europe, the Elephant is only known in con- 

 finement, from animals captured when young and 

 imported, or from one or two adult specimens 

 sent as presents. In this country, till very lately, 

 they have always been kept in a situation too 

 confined to afford any good idea of their man- 

 ners, and in the restraint of a cage could only 

 exhibit a few tricks, taught them by their keepers, 

 to please the popular part of their visiters ; but 

 they give us no idea of the healthy animal among 

 his own luxuriant foliage. In the more extended 

 paddock, and supply of water which our various 

 zoological gardens now allow to the large 

 Pachydermes, we may expect an improvement of 

 i their keeping, and to see them in as free a con- 

 Idition as we can well expect, without going to 

 look for them in India or Africa. 



The most remarkable Asiatic Elephant which 



manufacture of handles for knives ; but it is also exten- 

 sikely used in the manufacture of musical and mathematical 

 in htruments, chess-men, hilliard -balls, plates for minia- 

 tures, toys, &c. Ivory articles are said to be manufactured 

 to a greater extent, and with better success, at Dieppe, 

 than in any other place in Europe. But the preparation of 

 thi\ beautiful material is much better understood by the 

 Chinese, than by any other people. No European artist 

 has j dtherto succeeded in cutting concentric balls after the 

 uer of the Chinese : and their boxes, chess-men, and 

 otherX^ory articles, are all far superior to any that are to 



be metSsjth any where else M'CuIloch's Dictionary of 



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