560 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 17 10. 



mouth, with 2 long tusks, proceeding from the upper jaw, one on each side of 

 the proboscis; 4 strong grinders in each jaw; small, yet piercing eyes; and 

 large flat ears. 



As to our particular female elephant, which is the subject of this dissection, 

 being comparatively but young, 26 or 28 years, she may be presumed of a 

 middle size. PI. 13, fig. 9, represents her stuffed skin, the dimensions of 

 which are as follow; at the fore leg she was 84- feet high, aa, and 9 at the 

 hind part, bb; in length 10 feet, cc; and a tail 4 feet 3 inches long, cD; 

 round the belly 14 feet, ee; from the top of the head to the end of the pro- 

 boscis 8 feet, pp, of which the proboscis makes 44- feet, pg : from the forehead 

 even with the eye, to the lower jaw, measuring backwards, 27 inches, hh; 

 from the top of the head to the lower jaw, measuring downward, 44- feet, pi ; 

 the ear was almost square in this subject, and small in respect of those in other 

 animals. Whether this difference might have been owing to the sex, I know 

 not: it was in length IQ inches, kk; and in breadth 17, ll. The eye, v, was 

 not so small as Dr. Moulins would have it ; who makes it no larger than of a 

 sheep; whereas in this subject it is larger than those of an ox. The distance 

 between them, measuring across, was 26 inches; between the anus and 

 vagina 24- feet, between the dugs 1 foot. The fore feet, measuring round the 

 extremities of the 4 hoofs, 3 feet 104- inches, nn, of which the external hoof 

 running obliquely forward, was 5 inches: the second on the outside, square 

 before, was 5 inches, and 6 in breadth, i. e. up toward the skin; as was the 

 third, square also before, and 44, c. The internal was more pointed than 

 the external, and of the same length ; the hind part of the foot was covered 

 with a tough thick skin: the diameter of the fore foot, from the right to the 

 left, was 144^ inches; from before to behind, 1 64- inches. The circumference 

 of the fore leg, at the upper joint, was 4 feet 3 inches, 00 ; at the articulation 

 of the carpus 2 feet 64- inches, pp ; the circumference of the hind foot, round 

 the hoof, 3 feet 4 inches, qq ; its diameter from behind to before, 164- inches ; 

 from the right to the left, 12 inches. The breadth of the outer hoof, 44- in- 

 ches, b; the fore hoof being semicircular, 34^ inches, a; the third and fourth 

 hoof 4 inches each ; both inner and outer hoof go obliquely forward. The cir- 

 cumference of the hind leg is 2 feet 2 inches, rr. Thus you have the dimen- 

 sions of all its external parts, taken either from the body, when it lay dead in 

 the field, or since from the stuffed skin, wherein for the most part they agree; 

 only that by reason of drying, the legs are smaller, and the back not so pro- 

 tuberant. 



As to the cuticula and cutis. Dr. Moulins has already at large judiciously 

 described both. He says, he found the cuticula covered all over with a strange 



