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half, or ten feet ; if they reach twelve feet, are efteemed very 

 large and uncommon ; but when they attain fifteen or fixteen 

 (which does fometimes happen) they are looked on as exceffes, 

 exadlly as we (liould on one of our own fpecies of the height 

 of nine feet. 



In the time of Akbar elephants were found in the ftate of 

 nature in Agra, in the wilds of Begawan and Nerwar, as far as 

 Berar in the foubahfliip of Allahabad, in that of Malwab, in 

 that of Babar, efpecially about Rhotas, and in the foubahfliips 

 of Bengal and Orixa. It is poffible that by this time they may 

 be extirpated from the more populated parts. 



The caufe of elephants being firft trained for domeftic ufe, 

 was owing to KriJJjen, firft king of Hindoq/Jan, who, fays Fe- 

 ri/bta, vol. i. p. 10, was fo fat, that no horfe was equal to bear 

 his weight; he therefore, through necefiity, found out the 

 method of catching and taming elephants. 



The fantaftic tribe of Apes are very numerous in the forefts Ape?. 

 of hidia. Of the genuine apes, or tail-lefs, are the Goloks, 

 Hijl. ^adr. i. N° 89; the two varieties of Gibbons, N" 88, 

 and the Shaggy, N* 88. p. 184. tab. xxxviii. firft defcribed by 

 myfelf from a fine fpecimen in the late Sir AJJjton Lever's AIu- 

 feum. Thefe are known by the monftrous excefs of length of 

 arms. 



The Fygmy, N° 87, is more common. M. Scbreber fays the 

 great Ourang Oiitang is found in Bengal, and other parts of 

 India. 



The little Baboon, p. 198, is a fpecies I never met with. Babjon. 



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