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planner of generating, 15. Never generate in a domeflie 

 ftate, 16.; method of hunting and taming them, 18. A tame 

 elephant is the moll gentle and obedient of all domeftic ani- 

 mals, V. 25. Inftance of his great ftrength and fagacity, 26. 

 p. 40 43. Method of conJucling an elephant, 27. Ex- 

 treme affedion of the elephant for its guide, ih. The fpecies 

 extremely numerous, and why, 28. Never change their cli- 

 mate, 29. Why elephants are no longer ufeful in war, 30. 

 Manner of ufing them in war in the Eaft, 32. The African 

 elephants cannot be tamed without difficulty, 33. No wild 

 •^lephants now found on this fide of Mount Atlas, 34. Mr 

 Adanfon's account of the elephants at Senegal, 34. n. Arc 

 more numerous in Africa than in Alia, 37. ; overturn the 

 houfes of the negroes, ib. n. Have a contempt for all otliei 

 animals, ib. The hirgeft elephants found in the fouth of In- 

 dia and the eaft of Africa, 38. The Afiatic elephants in ge- 

 neral larger than the African ones, ib. Thofe of Ceylon ex- 

 cel! all others, ib. u. Price of elephants and manner of feeding 

 them, 41. . Of their extreme longevity, 42. Elephants of a 

 white or red colour highly valued, 43. The properties of 

 the elephant particularly confidercd, 47. Inconveniences to 

 which the elephant is fubjeul from the figure of his body, 54, 

 Water is as neceflary to the elephant as air, 63. Many of 

 the Indians devoutly regard the elephant's tail, -65. n. The 

 growth of the elephant retarded by his being kept in a do- 

 meftic Rate, 67. He loves wine, arrack, the fmoke oi tobacco, 

 but hates bad fmells, and will fly at the fight of a hog, 71. 

 Some remarkable accounts of the properties ol the elephant 

 by the Marquis dc Montmirail and others, 72. — 8r. The 

 prodigious tulles and bones attributed to the inaminouth, belong- 

 ed in reality to the elephant, 82. Some account of the valt 

 fize of overgrown elephants, and the bones of the mammoulh 

 found in Siberia, 82. — 88. Miftiake corrcifled with regard \c, 

 the manner of their copulation, 90. 

 Elk defcribed, vl. .315. Unknown to the Greeks, 317.; and to 

 the Latins before the time of Julius Caefar, ib. Exifted foi - 

 merly in the forefts of Gaul and Germany, 322. Is found in 

 lower latitudes in America th.m in Europe, 324.. Amc- 

 lican elks defcribed, 327. n. Comparifon of the elk with the 

 flag, 328. How the elk is killed by the glutton, 340. Dc- 

 fcriplion of the elk in the memoirs of the Academy, 344. 



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