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foot long and eight inches broad. (2) The Tatou of Ray, or the En- 

 coubert of Buffon, has Cix bands acrofs the back ; is about the fize of a 

 pig of a month old, has a fmall long head and a very long tail. (3) The 

 Tatuette, with eight bands, much fmaller; tail longer, and legs rtiorter. 

 Its body about ten inches long, the tail fevcn. (4) The pig-headed 

 Armadillo, with nine bands, two foot long from nofe to tail. (5) The 

 Kabaflfou, or Cataphradlus, with twelve bands, often found above three 

 feet long, is never eaten. (6) The weafel-headed Armadillo, with 

 eighteen bands, a large piece before, and nothing but bands backward, 

 above a foot long j tail five inches. The Kabaffou and the Encoubert 

 are the largcft ; the reft are of a much fmaller kind. 



In the large kinds, the fhell is much more folid than in the others, and 

 their flefli much harder. Thefe generally refide in dry upland grounds, 

 but the fmall fpecies in moid places. When rolled into a ball, thofe 

 whofe bands are feweft are lead capable of covering themfelves up com- 

 pletely. The Tatu Apara, when rolled up, prefents two great interftices 

 between its bands, by which it is eafily vulnerable. 



THE ELEPHANT. 



^r^H E elephant, at firft view, prefents an enormous mafs of flefli 

 j|^ covered with a callous hide, without hairj legs fcarcely formed 

 for motion ; little eyes, large ears and long trunk j and an air of extreme 

 ftupidity which fubfides when we come to examine its hiftory. But thefe 

 favourable appearances encreafe our furprife when we confider the various 

 advantages it derives from io clumfy a conformation, and the admirable 

 fagacity conneded with it. 



The elephant is from feven to fifteen feet high. The forehead high 

 and rifing, ears very large and dependant, eyes extremely fmall, the 

 trunk long, body round and full, back rifing in an arch, the whole 

 figure fhort in proportion to its height. The feet are round at 

 bottom; on each foot are five flat horny rifings, which feem to be the 

 extremities of toes. The hide not hairy. At the end of the tail is a 

 tuft of hair, a foot and a half long. The female is lefs than the male, 

 and the teats between the fore legs. 



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