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mit ; sometimes, instead of obeying, turned upon those it 

 was employed to assist ; one elephant is known to consume 

 as much as forty men in a day ; they are now chiefly em- 

 ployed in carrying or drawing burdens, throughout the 

 peninsula of India : it can, with ease, draw more than six 

 horses can remove ; it carries upon its back three or four 

 thousand weight ; and upon its tusks it can support near a 

 thousand ; when pushed, it moves as swiftly as a horse at 

 full gallop ; it travels fifty or sixty miles a-day ; and, hard 



, pressed, almost double that number ; heard trotting on at 

 a great distance ; its track is deeply impressed on the 

 ground, and from fifteen to eighteen inches in diameter ; 

 used in India as executioners, and with what dexterity they 

 perform the horrid task ; sometimes they impale the crimi- 

 nal on their enormous tusks : two surprising instances how 

 sensible it is of neglect ; the keeper despising its endeavours 

 in launching a ship, the animal redoubled its efforts, frac- 

 tured its skull, and died upon the spot ; revenge one of 

 them took upon a tailor who pricked its trunk with a needle 

 at Delhi ; is mindful of benefits ; instance of it ; at the 

 Cape of Good Hope they are hunted for the sake of their 

 teeth ; in what manner ; account of an unhappy huntsman ; 

 teeth of the elephant found in a fossil state ; two great 

 grinding teeth, and part of the tusk of an elephant, disco- 

 vered at the depth of forty-two yards, in a lead mine in 

 Flintshire, 351. Tusks of the elephant that come from 

 Africa seldom exceed two hundred and fifty pounds, 356. 



Elephantiasis, or the Arabian leprosy, a disease to which man 

 and the elephant are equally subject; in what manner the 

 Indians endeavour to prevent it, iii. 342. 



Ellis, his principal experiment upon coraline substances, vi. 

 196. 



Elk, its size equal to that of the elephant ; is an animal rather 

 of the buck than the stag kind ; known in America by the 

 name of moose-deer ; is sometimes taken in the German and 

 Russian forests ; but extremely common in North America ; 

 its horns fortuitously dug up in many parts of Ireland, 

 measuring ten feet nine inches from tip to tip ; a small one 

 the size of a horse, and the horns little larger than those of 

 a common stag ; Jocelin and Dudley describe this animal 

 about eleven feet high; others extend their accounts to 

 twelve and fourteen feet; never disturbs any other animal, 

 when supplied itself; a. female of this kind shown at Paris 

 in the year 1742 ; its description ; they gave it thirty pounds 

 of bread every day, besides hay, and it drank eight buckets 

 of water, ii. 339. 



Elk, (American) of two kinds, the grey and the black; de- 

 scribed ; they prefer cold countries, feeding upon grass in 

 summer, and the bark of trees in winter ; time and manner 



