112 LECTURE III. 



cloDen-hoofed Order, in which stand the Linnasaii 

 Pecora. By Monsieur Cuvier it is considered as 

 constituting an Order distinct from all others. 

 The mouth is usually furnished with one very 

 broad grinder on each side both above and below, 

 and with two upper tusks. The general appear- 

 ance, and even the general history of the Elephant 

 is pretty well known to most persons. It is a na- 

 tive of the warmer regions of Asia and Africa, 

 where it is chiefly seen in woody regions, and 

 feeds entirely on vegetable substances, as the 

 tender shoots of trees, and various kinds of fruit 

 and grain. The Elephant drinks by means of its 

 trunk, first sucking up the water into it, and then 

 conveying it to the mouth. The intelligence and 

 docility of the Elephant are well known, and are 

 generally detailed, with sufficient enlargements in 

 most of the common publications on Natural 

 History. I shall here only observe that in general 

 the intelligence of animals is in proportion to the 

 size of the brain : yet in the Elephant that part 

 is by no means large. 



In some parts of North-America, are often 

 found fossil bones bearing a general resemblance 

 to those of the Elephant, and commonly known 



