THE ELEPHANTS). 



Generic Characters. 

 No cutting teeth : two vaft tufks ; a long probofcis. 

 Feet round, terminated by five fmall hoofs. 



Synonims. 

 E\£<pcc$, Arijl. Hifl. An. lib. i. c. 11. ix. c. l. 

 Elephas, Plin. lib. viii. c. l. Rail Syn. Quad. 131. 

 Elephas maximus, Linn. Syft. 48. 

 L'Elephant, de Buff on 9 xi. l. tab. l. 

 Great Elephant, Pennant Syn, Quad. 02. 



THE external form of the Elephant offers nothing very particular to 

 attract our notice or admiration, but when we contemplate its enormous 

 bulk and llature, our thoughts are prefently raifed from the creature to the 

 great Creator, with an awful and reverential aftonimment, at that power 

 which could inform fuch a ftupendous mafs of animal matter, with every 

 degree of fupplenefs and activity, necelfary for its prefervation and happinefs, 

 and endue it with inftinctive faculties inferior to none, and fuperior to mojt. 

 of the animal creation. 



The Elephant is undoubtedly the largelt. quadruped known ; fome, indeed, 

 have thought, from the immenfe bones and teeth found under-ground, in 

 Siberia, and the banks of the Ohio, that an animal exifts, or has once exilted, 

 much larger than the larger!; Elephant now known, and the name of the 

 Mammouth has been given to it. What feems to favour this opinion is, 



(a) The name of this animal is derived from the Hebrew word Alaph, which fignifies to teach or inftruft, 

 on account of its extraordinary docility and fagacity. 



