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I. Some Remarks upon the Di/pofition of the <Part^ 
and Micro] copied OhferVations upon the Contexture 
of the Skin of Elephants. In a Letter from Mr. 
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. S. 
Delft in Holland , April i*. 1712. 
I T is fome Years ago, that there was an Elephant 
(hewn about for Money at the Hague) the biggeft: 
that ever I faw. Cafting tny Eyes upon the hinder 
part of her, in order to obferve the Matrix , I could 
not difeover the leaft appearance thereof 5 which feem’d 
to me very ft range. But it happen’d, whilft I was cu- 
riously viewing this great unweildy Creature, that fhe 
made Watery but not like our four-footed Creatures, 
from whom the Water iflues, as it were, in a Stream $ 
for from this Creature it burft out all at once, juft as if 
any Liquor were poured out of a Can, top and bot- 
tom all together: And I obferved, that the Skin, out of 
which the Water Bowed, was extended, or thruft out- 
wards about the fpace of three Fingers breadth 5 and 
the Orifice, or opening of the Skin in that place, feem’d 
to be fo large, that one might thruft ones Fift into 
it: And that part, from whence the Water was dis- 
charg’d, was not (ituated, as it ufually is in oiir four- 
footed Beafts, under the Tail, but in the Belly, and very 
near that part where the Navel grows in our Crea- 
tures. % 
This appear’d to me to be a very particular Difco- 
very 5 the more, becaufe I remember’d I had often read, 
that when the time came for the Copulation of E'e- 
phapts, 
