326 BACKBONED ANIMALS. 
han of the Bible, and, as Solomon has said, they are “ feeble 
folk,” although they have “their dwelling in the rock.” 
VALUE.—The Hyraceum in the manufacture of perfumery. 
FIG. 351.—Ayrax Capensis. 
Elephants (Prodoscidea).—The elephants are distin- 
guished by their large size, often weighing three tons, and 
the presence of a trunk or proboscis 
Fic. 352.—Various uses of the trunk of the ele- 
phant: 1, drinking ; 2, pulling grass; 3, wash- 
ing. 
(Fig. 352), that is 
a prolongation of 
the nose and up- 
per lip six or 
eight feet in 
length, made up 
of forty thousand 
or more muscles, 
so arranged as to 
give the greatest 
diversity of mo- 
tion. The ex- 
tremity bears the 
two openings of 
the nostrils, and 
is produced on 
its upper surfaces 
into a finger-like 
process endowed with an exquisite sense of touch. The 
upper incisor teeth are greatly developed into tusks, that 
