■T>;f Cut an e ■ 
.ous Veffels* 
Panniculus 
•Ciarnoius. 
WaU 
c at this rate we mull fuppofe an Elephant's Perfpiration to be 
< vaftly more i but (as he fays) 'tis probable, the Scabs might 
6 bar it from bearing proportion to that of a Man’s : So that what- 
ever the Elephant might have perfpir'd in an healthly State, we 
may reafonably fuppofe it to do much lefs, when attacked with 
this Difeafc which may be another Argument for the Craffities 
& Vifcofitas Sanguinis, wherewith I alledg’d this Animal I dif- 
fered, was endu'd. 
I can determine nothing about the thicknefs of the Skin, while 
recent-, but as it is dry, by an Jncifion made upon one of the 
Hips, it appears to be lefs than ^ Inch, and of Subftance not un- 
like to Englifh Bend or Sole-Leather* 
I had no opportunity to obferve, whether there were any Cu- 
taneous Velfels, but doubt not but there have been of them, and 
that in abundance ^ i. from the numerous Glands difpers’d all over 
its inner Surface, which muft have had Blood Veffels inferted in 
them • and 2. from the abundance of ^Ramifications difpers’d in 
the CnticuU , proportionable to which, it is probable, they were 
alfo intheCwffo'. 
i can fay nothing about the Panniculus Carnofus , neither am I 
fully convinc’d of what is related by Dr. Moulinj , viz.. That this 
Animal kills the Flies, by putting itfelf fuddenly in a Pofture to 
wrinkle the Skin on that fide that is attacked by them *, fo 
that the Cracks are forc’d clofe together, and the Flies bruis'd •, 
for ’tis hard to conceive fuch a big Animal fhould all on a fudden 
be fo nimble. I rather believe, that the Probofcis from before, and 
the Tail from behind, may fupply the defeat of the Panniculus 
Carnofus, (if it be wanting:) For if we confider the length of each, 
we (hall find they come near to meet about the middle ; for the 
Body of this Subject being 10 foot in length, the Probofcis and 
Tail make up between them near 9 of it ^ and what is wanting, 
the Air, by the force of their motion, is enongh to expel the 
Flies, even when without their reach. 
As to the Fat , whether by reafon of the extraordinary Lean- 
nefs of this Subjefr, or if it be ordinary for Elephants to be en- 
dued but with little of it, I know not, but I could not have be- 
lieved fo little Fat to have been in any Animal as was here? 
for befide that there was neither a Membrana Jdipofa, or con- 
fpicuous Omentum, there wasnofone Grain of Fat, either among 
the Interftices of the Mufcles furrounding the Kidneys, nor round 
the Anus and Vagina, where ’tis ufually found ; and what is more, 
when 
