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horny rilings, which feem to be the ex- 
tremities of toes, though outwardly no 
toes appear : it may rather be called dump- 
footed, though the fkeleton figured by 
the Royal Academy of Paris fhews five 
didind toes on each foot. (See the Mem. 
del’Acad. des Sciences, tom. III. Par. III. 
p. 91, where you will find fix plates of the 
Elephant and its parts.) The tail is like 
a hogs tail: the fkin feemed to be very 
thick, horny, and rough, with many 
chaps and irregular rifings, hanging loofe, 
in folds, in many parts of the body and 
limbs, as expreffed in the figure. It is all 
over of a dulky-brown colour, thinly fcat- 
tered over with fhort black hairs. 
The curious may examine its anatomy, 
in a fmall trad, called An Anatomical Ac- 
count of the Elephant accidentally burnt 
at Dublin, A. D. 1681 5 being a Letter to 
the Prefident of the Royal Society, by 
A. Molineux, Med. of Trinity College, 
near Dublin. London, printed A. D. 1682. 
See this trad in the library of the College 
of Phylicians, London. 
Job Ludolphus, in his Hidory of Ethi- 
opia, or Abyffinia, (Englifh tranflation, p. 
54> 55) h as given a long account of the 
manner of the elephants feeding, (which is 
all on vegetables) and the damage and de- 
valuation they make in the plantations of 
the natives. He fays, the males only have 
thofe long teeth in the upper jaw. Accounts 
of Elephants may alio be colleded from 
mod voyagers to the coads of Africa and 
India. J. T. Klein, in his Book of Qua- 
drupeds, published at Leipfick, A.D. 1751, 
has treated of the Elephant, from page 36 
to 38 ; but has given no figure. Johnffon 
has given feveral figures, which are very 
good ones. A defcription of its bones, and 
natural hidory, with a figure, is given in 
the Philofophical Tranfadions, N°. 326. 
Chaque pied a cinq elevations plates , d’une 
fubjiance femblable a de la corne y qui paroif- 
fe?it etre des extremites dorteils, qnoi qui l 
ne paroifie point dorteils a I'exterieur ; on 
diroit que ce ne font que des moignons y plutot 
que des pieds y quoique le fquelette, dont /’ Aca- 
demic Roy ale des Sciences de Paris a donne 
la figure, montre ctnq orteils d chaque pied 
La queue rejfemble d celle dun cochon : la peau 
paroit fort epaijfe , dure et rude , avec beau- 
coup de crevajfes , et d elevations irregulieres, 
pendantes en plis dune maniere lache en plu - 
fieurs endroits du corps et des membres , com- 
me on voit dans la figure 5 il eft partout dun 
brim fonce \ parfeme de poil noir ajfez court . 
Les curieux peuvent voir l' anatomic de cet 
animal , dans nn petit traite Anglois , qui eft 
dans la Bibliotheque des Medecins d Londres p. 
Job Ludolphe , dans fon Hiftoire dEthiopie y 
ou dAbyfiinie , a decrit au long la maniere 
dont les Elephants fe nourrijfent , qui eft d her- 
bages, et les devaftations quits font dans les 
plantations des gens du pays §. II dit qui l 
ny a que les males , qui ayent de ces longues 
dents d la machoire fuperieure . On pent 
encore confulter touchant les Elephants la plus 
part des voyageurs qui ont par count les cotes 
dAfrique et les hides . J. T. Klein parle de 
lElephant , mats il nen a point donne de 
figure p Johnfion en a donne plufieurs fort 
bonnes . On a donne la defcription des cs y 
l hiftoire naturclle , et la figure de lElephant 
dans les Lranf actions Philofophiques , N. 326. 
* Mem. de I'Acad. des Sciences, tom. III. partie, HI. p. 91, ou Ton 
trouve fix differences planches de I ’ Elephant et de ces parties. 
t An Anatomical Account of the Elephant accidentally burnt at 
Dublin, A.D. 1681; being a letter to the Prefident of the Roval 
Society, by A. Molineux, Med. of Trinity College, near Dublin, 
printed in London i68a. 
^ Englifli tranflation, pag. 54, 55, 
f Voy, fon Livre des Quadruples, a Lipfic 1 75 r, pag. 36, 38. 
