'? H E ELEPHANT. St 



* rify any perfon, he runs upon him with every 



* appearance of fury, and, when he comes near- 



* (lops ihort, without doing him the fmalleft 



* injury. When the mailer choofes to affront 



* any man, he tells the elephant, who collects 

 s water and mud with his trunk, and fquirts it 

 1 upon the object pointed out to him. The 

 c trunk is compofed of cartilage, hangs between 



* the tuiksi and is by fome called his hand, be- 



* caufe, on many occahons, it anfwers the fame 

 ' purpofes as the human hand. . . . The Mogul 



* keeps fome elephants who (c:\c as execution- 



* ers to criminals condemned to death; When 



* the conductor orders one of thele animals td 

 4 defpatch the poor criminals quickly, he tears 



* them ro pieces in a moment with his feet. 

 4 But, if denied to torment them flowiy, he 



* breaks their bones one after another, and 



* makes them fuller a pimifhment as cruel as! 

 4 that of the wheel.' 



We might quote many other facts equally 

 curious and interefting. But we mould loon 

 exceed the limits we have prefcrfbed to ouffelves! 

 in this work. We fhould not even have giveri 

 fo long a detail, if the elephant had not been, 

 in many refpects, the chief animal in the brute 

 creation, and who,- of courfe, merited the great- 

 ell attention. 



Mr Daubentori has made feveral ufefiil re- 

 marks on the nature and qualities of ivory, a 

 has reltored to the elephant -thole prodigious 

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