GREAT ELEPHANT. 
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pleasure. The trunks being flexible in all direc- 
tions, perfoiTiis the office of a hand and arm. On 
its under surface it is somewhat flattened, and is 
circularly formed on the upper. At the end of 
the trunk are situated the nostrils. The teats 
in the female Elephant are two in number, and 
are situated at a small distance behind the fore 
legs. The eyes are extremely small; the ears 
very large, somewhat irregularly waved on the 
edges, and pendulous. In each jaw are four 
large and flat grinding teeth, with the upper sur- 
faces flat, and scored or striated with numerous 
transverse furrows. In the upper jaw are the two 
tusks before described. The form of the whole 
animal is extremely awkward: the head very 
large: the body very thick: the back greatly 
arched: the legs extremely thick, very short: and 
the feet slightly divided into, or rather edged 
with, Ave rounded hoofs: the tail is of a mode- 
rate length, and is terminated by a few scattered 
hairs, of great thickness, and of a black-colour: 
the general colour of the skin is also dusky or 
blackish, as before mentioned, and has a few 
thinly scattered hairs or bristles dispersed over it, 
and which are somewhat more numerous about 
the head. 
The tales related of the sagacity of the Ele* 
phant are, in all probability, somewhat exagge- 
rated, and must consequently be receiv^ed with a 
degree of limitation: but there is no reason to 
doubt that they are possessed of a greater degree 
of intelligence than most other quadrupeds (the 
