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VERTEBRATA. 
ELEPHANT OP THE GARDEN OF PLANTS, PAKIS. 
state, and the animal seems to take a grave delight in the pomp and pageantry of which it forms 
a part. Many of these creatures are employed in carrying burdens, one of them being able to 
support a weight of three or four thousand pounds ; it will bear a thousand pounds on its tusks. 
It loads and unloads boats with its trunk ; it pulls at a tackle ; it rolls and lifts and carries barrels 
and hogsheads in short, it does the work of oxen, horses, and men. In India the elephant is 
thus a useful as well as familiar beast ; but the inhabitants of that country do not look upon it 
with the strange, ruminating wonder which it always excites among our people. 
