ORDER PACHYDERMATA. 355 



Major Smith has a drawing of this species, copied by him 

 from one in the Berlin library, which belonged to the col- 



that at great personal hazard Mr. Tyler, with Cartmell and Newsam, 

 and the other keepers, had prevented him from breaking down the 

 front of the den. 



" The keepers faced him with long pikes or spears, to deter him 

 as much as possible from efforts to liberate himself from the con- 

 finement which at ordinary periods he had submitted to without 

 restraint. When he lunged furiously at the bars, they assailed 

 him with great bravery, and their threats and menaces prevented 

 the frequency of his attacks. In this state of affairs Mr. Herring 

 concurred with Mr. Tyler, that to wait longer for Mr. Cross would 

 endanger the existence of every person present ; and having com- 

 municated the fact to Mrs. Cross, who had the highest regard for 

 the animal from his ordinary docility, she was convinced, by their 

 representations, that his death must be accomplished immediately, 

 and therefore assented to it. 



" For the information of persons not acquainted with the mena- 

 gerie, it is necessary to state that it occupies the entire range of 

 the floor above Exeter 'Change, the lower part of which edifice 

 withinside is occupied by shops belonging to Mr. Clarke. This 

 part of the building, on the business of the day being concluded, 

 is closed every night by the strong folding-gates at each end, 

 which, when open, allow a free passage to the public through 

 the 'Change. It will be perceived, therefore, that the flooring above 

 is Mr. Cross's menagerie, or, at least, that very important part of 

 it which is allotted to his matchless collection of quadrupeds. A 

 large arrangement of other animals is in other apartments, on a 

 higher story. Nero, not Wombwell's Nero, which was baited by 

 that showman at Warwick, but a lion not only in every respect finer 

 than his namesake, and, in short, the noblest of his noble species 

 in England, occupies a den in the menagerie over the western door 

 of the 'Change. Other lions and animals are properly secured in 

 their places of exhibition on each side of the room, and the east 

 end is wholly occupied by the den of the elephant; its floor being 

 supported by a foundation of brick and timber, more than adequate 

 to the amazing weight of the animal. The requisite strength and 

 construction of this flooring necessarily raise it nearly two feet 

 from the flooring of the other part of the menagerie, which, though 

 amazingly stable and capable of bearing any other beast in perfect 

 safety, would have immediately given way beneath the tread of 



