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MAMMALIA, 
[Cav HI, 
in which elephants may not be said to abound: even 
close to the environs of the most populous loenlities of 
the interior. 
They frequent both the open plains and 
the deep foresty; and their footstepsy are to be Keen 
wherever food and shade, vegetation and water’, allure 
'M. Ap. Provpr lina availed 
himself of the love of the eleplint 
for water, fo found on it a alta 
of the lonpeeontested question as 
to the etymology of the word 
“olephinty a form whieh, whilat 
it hag passed into almoat every cine 
loot. of Che Wert, in Henvoely to he 
traced in any language of Asia. 
The Crack eadpas, to califeh wo ure 
immediately indebted tor i, did not: 
originally mean the animal, but, as 
early as the time of Homer, was 
appliod only to itt tumks, mid: dip 
nifled doory. Booman hag sought 
for a Semitic origin, and seizing: on 
the Arabie fi, and prefixing the 
article a/, auggosty adi, alin to 
dred; but. rejecting (hin, Bocaire 
himself resorts to the Hebrew edeph, 
an “ox” and this conjecture de- 
vives a cartain depree of eounte- 
naneo from the fiet that the Ro- 
mans, whon they obtained their first 
sight of the elephant in the army 
of Pyrrhus, in Tacanin, ealled it 
the Luca boa But the avros is 
still unnecounted for; and Porr 
hag sought to remove the diMfeulty 
by introducing the Arabie Aine, 
Indian, thus making eleph-hindi, 
“hoa Indicua.’ The conversion of 
hinds imo ayros is an obstacle, but 
here the example of “ tumarind ” 
comes to nid; lamar hindi, the 
“Tndian date,” whieh in medinval 
Creck forms rapdpeyts, A theory 
of Bunary, that ¢Adpas might. bn 
compounded of the Arabie al, and 
ibha, w Bandkrit, name for the cle- 
phant, is exported to till yronter 
etymologion! exception, Pivrwr's 
solution im, that. in the Sannksrit 
epics he King of Mlephants,” whe 
hina the distinetion of carrying: the 
god India, iss entlod afrsata ov 
airanana, Wo Modiflention of adn 
vanta, “won ol (he oven? whieh 
fyguin commen Crom dratad, “abound 
ing in water”? Nous aurions 
done ningi, comme eorrdélngif dur 
poe eAépavra, uno aneionne fornie, 
Ardvanta on AMA ante, wMriblio 
plun turd on d/rdnate ow dirdtana, 
2 On commit, le predilection 
le PAéléphint pow le voisinage dew 
Nonverdy at von mone pour Poa, 
dont Taibondance ont ndvenniire th 
won bien-Atre"" Thin Aunwlerit. 
ning, Peravr supposes, miny have 
been enrriod to the Went by the 
Phanicinna who were the pure 
vayors of ivory from tnding and, 
from the Creek, the Liatind derived 
elephan, whieh pinged inte the 
modern Tingunges of Taly, Ger 
many, and Pranes. But it in euri- 
oun that the Spaniards wequired 
from the Moor their Arabic tern 
for ivory, manft, wand the Porta 
puede gnarfine aud that, the Sean: 
dinmyinns, probably from their 
early expeditions to the Med bernie 
new, walled fl ne their nnane for 
the olephant itnelf, and fil-bein for 
ivory; in Daniah, filashen, (Soo 
Journ, Axial, VAA8, 1, xii p. 1.) 
The Spanineda of South Arete 
eull the palm whieh produce the 
vegetable ivory (Phytetephan ih 
erocarpa) Patina de anarfid, nnd (he 
nut itaelf, weanfit argetal, 
Sines the above was written 
Coonerntind Modline, the Singhindene 
Interpreter to the Supreme Conet 
wt, Colombo, bat vipa me will 
