IVOR Y. 



fambiquc furniilics tuilvs ten feet long, being the largefi; from Peg\i, which weigh T50 pounds. It is, in faft, frorrii 

 ever known. In the Indian fpccies there are more vaiieties Pegu and Cochinchina that the largeft elephants and tufits 



of the Indian fpecies come. The coafl ot Malabar fur- 



of tu(l<s, which Mr. Corfe has developed with more care than 

 any other writer (fee Phih Tranf. 1799, and art. Eleph.'^s ;) 

 but all thefe varieties have nothing conftant, and are mixed 

 indifcriminately with each other. In Bengal, the tu/lcs 

 weigh little more than 72 pounds, and they do not exceed 

 50 in the province of Tipperah, wl ' 

 eieph?.ntf. There are tuflcs in Lond 



nifhes no tuflcs, according to Pennant, more than four feet 

 long. 



Cuvier has drawn up the following table cf the length, 

 diameter, and weight of the largell tuflcs taken from o.theF 

 h produces the bell authors, or adlually infpeded byhimfelf: the tuflcs from 

 however, probably Africa arc not diilinguiflied here from thofe of India. 



Vive quoted j 

 he F=fts. I 



Their Autlioiltics ami 



Dc.aila vijion the Origin of ihc Tuiks. 



t)ian:fter 



at tlle 

 thick End. 



Tuflc from Sumatra, according to Louis Vartoman 



quoted by Jonilon ..... 

 Tulk mentioned by J. C. Scaliger, " de Reb. Ind." 

 Tuflc from the Cab. of Septal, quoted by Herzog 

 Tuflc mentioned by Vielhauers, " Traitc d 



Hartenfels 

 Elcphanto- 

 graphia, 



p. 47, 48. 



Camper 

 Defer. Anat. 

 d'un Eleph. 



Faujas Gco- 

 'ogie, 24^. 

 Mcm.d'Hift 

 Nat.del'Ital, 



Dro.7 



Tufl<, by Louis Barth, " de Reb. Indie." 

 J Tuflc at Bade, brought from India, quoted by Munfier 

 in his " Cofmographie'' 



Idem ........ 



Another tuflc mentioned by J. C. Scaliger 



Idem by Al. Cadamollo ..... 



The largeft tuflc, according to Gyllius 



A tuflc in the poffefiion of a merchant of Venice 



The tuflcs taken from Firmus, by Aurelian, according ] 

 L to Flavi'.is Vopifcus 

 r Common tuflcs from Guinea .... 



A tuflc belonging to Mr. Wolferf, merchant in Amfter-] 

 I dam - - . .....J 



Tuflc belonging to Mr. Ryfsnyder, merchant in Rot. | 

 tcrdam, according to Klockner - . . -J 



Tuflc fold at Amilerdam ; fame author 

 (_ Tuflc in Camper's cabinet .... 

 ( The largeft tuflc in the Mufeum of Natural Hiftorv at") 

 1 Paris ' 



Tuflc in the Florence cabinet 



Pennant. -j The large tuflcs from Mofambique 



Br.ffon HilL 

 Nat. t. xi. 

 4to. 



Several tuflcs mcafured by Eden ... 



I..opcs ... 

 Brack 

 Tuflcs from Lowango, according to the Voyage of the 

 I Indian Company ...... 



(^Tuflcs from the Cape, according to Kolben 



more than c' 

 8' 



'4' 



10' Rom 



7 '4'' of France 



6" 

 6' 6" 



lo' Eng. or 



9'2''of Fran. 



9' Eng. 



5' 4" 

 7" 6'" 



162 

 160 



525 



100 



120 

 20S 



350 

 105 



125 

 200 

 200 



— from 60 to 



As the tuflcs, M. Cuvier adds, grow during the life of the 

 animal, and the body does not, the fize of an elephant can- 

 nut be concluded from its tuflcs, even by eilablifliing the 

 proportion between individuals of one fame variety, and the 

 tame fex : as, on the other hand, the tuflcs rot or break at 

 their points, according to the greater or lefs ufe the animal 

 makes of them, and they are fharpened, more or lefs ab- 

 ruptly, into a point, we cannot conclude their length from 

 the diameter at their bafe. Finally, their weight cannot be 

 concluded from their dimenfions (Mefferfchmidt in the Phil. 

 Tranf), becaufe their cavity at the bafe may be more or 

 lefs filled. The degree of curvature of the tuflis of elephants 



varies almofl as much as their Cze. In various cabinets there 

 are feveral tuflcs to be feen vAth curvatures more or lefs 

 ftrange, and in particular fome are fpiral. Camper faw fe- 

 veral of them in the Britifli Mufeum, and Grew reprefonts 

 one which is turned round feveral times ; and Cuvier knows, 

 from M Fabroni, that tlicre is one of that defcription in the 

 Florence cabinet alfo. They arc frequently feen in the form 

 of an Italic S, Sec. 



A green dye may be given to ivory, by fteeping it in aqua- 

 fortis, tinged with copper or verdigris, or in two parts of 

 verdigris and one of ftil ammoniac, ground well together, 

 with Ilrong white-wine vinegar poured on tliem : and by 

 4 converting 



