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floor is almost of the height of the key ; then the side of the key and the vessel 

 are adorned with great branches, so that the elephant sees no water till he is 

 in the ship. 



When an elephant swims to the ship, or otherwise crosses a deep river, no 

 part of him can be seen except his trunk, through which he breathes ; and when 

 he is washed on a river side, he usually lies with his head on the bottom of the 

 water flat alike with his body ; and though one side be above water, his head 

 will be under, holding only his snout above it, through which he breathes. 



If they fall at any time, though on plain ground, they either die immediately, 

 or languish afterwards till they die, their great weight occasioning them so 

 much hurt by the fall. 



When an elephant frequents a plantation of fruit trees of the natives, for 

 no hedges can keep him out, they sharpen to a point a heavy piece of wood, 

 and hang it by a cord to a branch of the tree under which the elephant uses to 

 come ; and at night a man sits watching upon that branch, and when the ele- 

 phant comes under it, the man cuts the cord, and the pointed wood flills a foot 

 deep in his back ; by which means the elephant languishes and dies. 



An Account of Mr. Samuel Broiuns Sixth Book of East India Plants, with their 

 Names, Virtues, Description, &c. By James Petiver, F. R. S. with an Account 

 of some Animals brought by the Rev. George Joseph Camelli, frorn the Phi' 

 lippine Isles. N° 277, p- 1055. 



An enumeration and description of 20 East India Plants. Among the animals 

 noticed is a quadruped called by Camelli cato-simius volans. The rest are moths 

 and butterflies. 



Account of a strange Cancer. By Mr. Jonathan Kay, Surgeon. N° 277, 



p. 1069. 



You desire an account of my father's cancer, which I here send you, as 

 near as I can remember, it being 20 years since he died. It took its rise from 

 a small bruise on the os jugale, and in process of time spread itself over the 

 whole cheek ; and notwithstanding the endeavours of the most emiment sur- 

 geons in those parts where he lived, it ulcerated his eye quite round, which I 

 saw him take out with his own hand, and afterwards extended itself to his ear, 

 and through his cheek into his mouth, and across the upper part of his nose, 

 and perforated the bone there : it likewise over-ran that side of his forehead, 

 fouling the os frontis, which came away in pieces, leaving the dura mater bare, 

 for the breadth of a half-crown ; which rising through the perforation of the 



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