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which he was an eye-witness. The heads, and part 

 of the trunks of the Elephants, were defended from 

 the claws of the Tiger by a covering made for the 

 purpose. They were placed in the midst of a large 

 enclosure. One of them were suffered to approach 

 the Tiger, which was confined by cords, and re- 

 ceived two or three heavy blows from the trunk of 

 the Elephant upon its back, which beat it to the 

 ground, where it lay for some time as if it were 

 dead : but, though this attack had a good deal 

 abated its fury, it was no sooner untied, than with 

 a horrible roar, it made a spring at the Elephant's 

 trunk, which that animal dexterously avoided by 

 drawing it up ; and receiving the Tiger on its 

 tusks, threw it up into the air. The two Elephants 

 were then allowed to come up ; and, after giving it 

 several heavy blows, would undoubtedly have killed 

 it, if an end had not been put to the combat. 

 Under such restraints and disadvantages, we can- 

 not wonder that the issue was unfavourable to the 

 Tiger. We may, however, by this, judge of its 

 great strength and fierceness, that, after being 

 disabled by the first attack of the Elephant, whilst 

 it was held by its cords, it would venture to continue 

 such an unequal engagement. 



We are happy in being able to present our 

 curious readers with an engraving of this rare 

 animal, drawn from the life, from a Tiger that was 

 exhibited at Newcastle in 1787, and was generally 

 allowed to be one of the finest creatures of its kind 

 ever seen in England. The beautiful bars of black 

 with which every part of its body was streaked, are 

 accurately copied : the colour of the ground was 

 yellow, deeper on the back, and softening by 

 degrees towards the belly, where it was white ; as 



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