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This is very lively expreft, and Anfwers exactly to what I Their length 
find inthisSubjed. He goes on, and fays : ‘ The length of thefe *« hisSubjdh 
‘ Scabs was in fome above f or % but in other places not above 
‘ f- Q or fi of an Inch. The caufe of which difference, he takes 
* to be the Elephants^ earing, by rubbing or lying, fome Parts of 
1 them, while others were fliglitly, or not at ail worn. 
The Scabs of this Subjed were not fo long for as the deepeft In ours, 
I could find upon the Cuticula was not above f, fo the thinnefc Tab. 3. A.B. 
was lefs that r 6 of an Inch *, but that is not material. As to his 
Reafon why they are thicker in fome Parts than another, tho’ it 
may feem pretty good, yet 1 fhall offer another by and by, as a 
no lefs probable CoDjedure. 
He fays, 4 He could find but very few Hairs without this Scab ,The Hairs in 
‘ but many v/ithin, and even with it. The Elephants Inclinati- his. 
c on to Ifch, and to rub himfelf againfl; whatever came in his 
‘ way, kept thofe Hairs that were even with the outflde of the 
* aforefaid Scab, from appearing of any confiderable length. The 
‘ hardnefs of the Scab, by keeping the Roots of the Hairs fall, 
‘ did very much contribute to their wearing on the outflde, as 
* well as to their Prefervation on that within. 
In our Subjed the Hairs are every where pretty long, fome. 
2, fome 3 Inches- others (in Places moft Subjed: to Rubbing, 'as 
the Dodor obferves) but 1 or j Inch, tho’ indeed not fo nu- 
merous as I find. There are Palfages for them through the Cu- ^ ^ 
ticula. I know not what the Dodor means by diftinguifhing be - ln °' lrs ' 
tween thofe found in the Cutis , and thofe in the Cuticula, fince . 
I am convinc’d all arife from the finis, and penetrate the Cuti- 
cula. They are indeed black, and many of th.m ftiffer and 
thicker than thofe in an Hog. As he by the Fire had occafion to 
obferve fome pieces of the Cuticula rais’d from the Cutis , fo the 
Skin of this Subjed is in mmy Places depriv’d of it, efpecially 
where the Beafi: lay moft ia the Water at its Death ^ and fince 
thefe are means whereby to feparate the one from the other, 
this may give occafion to enquire by what means they aihere : 
But I muft firft confider the Strudure of the Cuticula , and then 
of the Cutis. You know fome have taken the Cutis to be nothing 
but a certain Cruft form’d of feveral Mucilaginous Particles, 
obducing the Cutis, &c. in the Vtcr/ts ; which after the Fanis is Fh( Stm~ 
come to greater maturity, is condens’d and form’d into a Skin ytture of the. 
fuch as we lee Mucilage* and Pu/tefes have, when after boiling Cuticula* 
they are expos’d to the Cold : Others, that the Cuticula , as well 
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