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phants, the Female Elephant ufed to prepare herfelf a Bed 
with the Boughs of Trees, and then caft herfelf upon 
her Back on them 5 but none of the Authors that I had 
read, gave their Reafons for her doing fo.- 
Cafting my Eyes upon the fore Legs of the Elephant, 
I obferv’d growing upon the upper part of the Body, or 
about the Bread:, two Nipples, which in Cows we call 
Dugs, quite contrary to thole of Mares, Cows, &c. whole 
Dugs are plac’d near the hinder Legs. But whea we 
confider farther of the Matter we meft conclude, that 
Nature has fo order’d it, in relation to the Elephant, 
for the Benefit of her youug ones, whom (he could not 
fuckle, if her Dogs had been plac’d between her hinder 
Legs$ for by reafon of the Polidon of the Mouth un- 
der the Trunk the young Elephant can’t fuck its Dam } 
but the old one fucks at her own Bread:, and by the 
help of her Trunk conveys the Milk into the Mouth 
of the young one. 
After thefe Oblervations, I viewed the Skin of the 
Elephant, which was very rough} upon which, dif- 
courfing with the Keeper, I was told that that Rough- 
nefs fell off every year. 
I therefore intreated the Keeper that he would 
with a Knife (crape off a little of that annually falling 
Roughnefs : But he at firft refus’d my Requcft } yet 
after I had allured him^ that I would Reward him well 
for his Pains, he readily confented to my Requeft, and 
fcrap’d off a little of the faid Skin upon a Paper. 
Since that time I have view’d the fcrap’d off Particles 
of the Skin, and always imagined that the moft part of 
of it was a protruded Matter, which had not nonrifhment 
enough to turn it all into Hair; and that what became 
Hair was very (hort and thin, in proportion to the big* 
nefs of fo great a Body } and the Hair which is upon 
the Tail of the Elephant, is much thicker than that 
which 
