2 THE ELEPHANT. 



r an approach to man as matter can approach. 

 fpirit *, Of all animated beings, the elephant, 



dog, the ' . •. '• ■-■■. have the mbft 



admirable inftinct. But this inftincT:, which is 

 only a refult of all the animal powers, both in- 

 ternal and externa], manifefts itfelf by very dif- 

 ferent effects in each of tliefe fpecfes. Naturally, 

 and when left at full liberty, the dog is as cruel 

 and bli as the wolf; but, ainidft all this fe- 



rocity of difpbfition, there is one flexible point 

 which we have cherimed. Hence the natural 

 difpofitions of the dog differ not from thofe of 

 ■acious animals, but by this point of fen- 

 fibility, which renders him fufceptible of affection 



and attachment. It is from nature that he de- 

 rives 



was formeily cr.lled Bar-re ; and it is probable that Barrus was 

 derived from this word, and afterwards applied by the Latins 

 to the elephant ; Gefner, cap. de Elcphanto. At Congo, it is 

 call: J i cr Manzo; Drake, p. 104. 



Elephas ; Pliuii, lib. 8. cap. I. Rati Jynopif. qua J. p. 131. 



, A . 36. Ludolph. JEihiop. p. 54. Boullaye-le-Gouz'. p. 



250. Delhi? s voyage, p. 71. Leo Afric. p. 336. Kolben's Cape, 



2. *. 98 Bo/man's h'lfl. ofGuiney, p. 23c. Linfchotian. iter, 



/. 55. DiiHalde's China, vol. 2. p. 224. Addanfon's voyage, p. 13S. 



p. 31. Borr'i's account of Cochin China, p. 795. 



Bdrtofj Giiuiey, p. 141. 206. Seba, torn. \.p. 175./^. 3. Ed~ 



221. 



L'Elephant ; Brijfofu quad. p. 28. 



Elephas maximus; Linn. J', ft. nat. p. 48. 



* Va1 : ct reliqua fagacitate ingenii excellit elephas; 



Arijl. Hijl. anim. lib. 9. cap. 46. — Elephanti funt natura mites 

 et manfueti, ut ad rationale animal proxime accedant ; Str, 

 — Vidi dephantos quofdam qui prudentiores mihi videbantuy 

 m in locis homines ; Vartomannus, apud Gefner. 

 cap. de Elephanto. 



