3.30 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Asiatic species, a convex forehead and enormous ears, which 

 descend as far as the legs. They are indeed so large, that at 



though united with the preceding enormous quantity of- other me- 

 dicine, it operated no apparent effect. At this juncture Mr. Ny- 

 leve, a native East Indian, and a man of talent, suggested to Mr. 

 Cross the administration of animal oil, as a medicine of efficacy. 

 Six pounds of marrow from beef bones were accordingly placed 

 within his reach, as if it had been left by accident; the lickerish 

 beast, who would probably have refused it had it been tendered 

 him in his food, swallowed the bait. The result justified Mr. Ny- 

 leve's prediction. To my inquiry whether the marrow had not ac- 

 celerated an operation which would have succeeded the previous 

 administration, Mr. Cross answered, that he believed the beef 

 marrow was the really active medicine, because, after an interval 

 of three weeks, he gave the same quantity wholly unaccompanied, 

 and the same aperient effect followed. He never, however, could 

 repeat the experiment : for the elephant in successive years wholly 

 refused the marrow, however attempted to be disguised, or with 

 whatever it was mixed. 



" In subsequent years, during these periods of excitement, the 

 paroxysms successively increased in duration; but there was no 

 increase of violence until the present year, when the symptoms be- 

 came more alarming, and medicine produced no diminution of the 

 animal's heightened rage. On Sunday, (the 26th of February,) a 

 quarter of a pound of calomel was given to him in gruel. Three 

 grains of this is a dose for a man: and though the entire quantity 

 given to the elephant was more than equal to six hundred of those 

 doses, it failed of producing in him any other effect than extreme 

 suspicion of any food that was tendered to him, if it at all varied 

 in appearance from what he was accustomed to at other times. On 

 Monday morning some warm ale was offered him in a bucket, for 

 the purpose of assisting the operation of the calomel, but he would 

 not touch it till Cartmell, his keeper, drank a portion of the liquor 

 himself, when he readily took it. The fluid did not appear to ac- 

 celerate the wished-for object, and in fact, the calomel wholly 

 failed to operate. Though in a state of constant irritation, he re- 

 mained tolerably quiet throughout Monday and Tuesday, until 

 Wednesday, the first of March, when additional medicine became 

 necessary, and Mrs. Cross conceived the thought of giving it to 

 him through some person whom the elephant had not seen, and 

 whom therefore he might regard as a casual visitor and not sus- 



