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Cuvier has also done us the honour to transmit us a beauti- 

 ful side-view drawing of this species, together with outlines 



body, he made a fierce and heavy rush at the front, which further 

 weakened the gates, shivered the side bar next to the dislodged 

 story-post, and drove it out into the menagerie. The fury of the 

 animal's assault was terrific, the crash of the timbers, the hallooing 

 of the keepers in their retreat, the calls for " rifles ! rifles ;" and 

 the confusion and noise incident to the scene, rendered it indes- 

 cribably terrific. The assailants rallied in a few seconds, and came 

 pointing their spears with threats. Mr. Tyler having handed two 

 other rifles, they were discharged as before ; and, as before, pro- 

 duced a similar desperate lunge from the enraged beast at the front 

 of his den. Had it been effective, and he had descended on the 

 floor, his weight must have inevitably carried it, together with 

 himself, his assailants, and the greater part of the lions, and other 

 animals, into the 'Change below, and by possibility have buried 

 the entire menagerie in ruins. " Rifles! rifles !" were again called 

 for, and from this awful crisis it was only in the power of Mr. Tyler 

 and some persons outside, to load quick enough for the discharge 

 of one rifle at a time. The maddened animal turned round in his 

 den incessantly, apparently with the design of keeping his head 

 from the riflemen, who after the first two discharges could only 

 obtain single shots at him. The shutter inside of a small grated 

 window, which stood in a projection into the den, at one of the 

 back corners, was now unshipped, and from this position Mr. 

 Herring fired several shots through the grating. The elephant 

 thus attacked in the rear as well as the front, flew round the den 

 with the speed of a race-horse, uttering frightful yells and screams 

 and stopping at intervals to bound from the back against the front. 

 The force of these rushes shook the entire building, and excited 

 the most terrifying expectation that he would bring down the whole 

 mass of wood and iron-work, and project himself among his as- 

 sailants. 



" After the discharge of about thirty balls, he stooped and sunk 

 deliberately on his haunches. Mr. Herring, conceiving that a shot 

 had struck him in a vital part, cried out — ' He's down, boys ! 

 he's down !' and so he was, but it was only for a moment : he 

 leapt up with renewed vigour, and at least eighty balls were suc- 

 cessively discharged at him from different positions before he fell 

 a second time. Previous to that fall, Mr. Joshua Brookes had ar- 



