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tliere have been Ibme in the Company's ftore- 
houfes weighing as much as a hundred and 
fixty pounds, as I have been affured by feveral 
perfons of credibility^ who had the charge of 
things of this nature, 
Ayq the elephants of Ceylon then a diiferent 
fpecies from thofe of Africa ? I think they are 
not. At the fame time it is now proved, that 
the rhinoceros of India is of a different fpecies 
from the rhinoceros of the Cape, fmce they 
have diftinft charaders, by which they are 
completely difcriminated from each other : but 
the fame circumftance remains to be ihewn 
with refpeft to the elephants of the Cape and 
of Ceylon. The planters and Plottentots, who 
have had opportunities of meeting with or 
killing pocs'kop elephants, affured me they were 
all males. That which we had juft killed was 
ten feet four inches high (French). To judge 
of its age by its grinders, which were very lit- 
tle worn, It muft have been ftill very youngs 
The female was not more than a foot fhorter, 
and was the largeft I had ever feen. Its tu&s 
weighed twenty pounds each. In the courfe 
of my journey, however, I met with larger 
D 4 females, 
