indi 
■i-ius. 
^'^iiximus, E. 
mammalia. BRUTA, Sukotyro. Elephas. 35 
11. SUKOTYRO. Iior?i on each fide near 
the eyes. 
Mane upright, fliort, narrow, reaching from the top of the 
head to the rump. 
Inhabits Java : thick, duinfy, feeds on herbs. 
Snout like a hog, truncate; ears long, 
eyes placed upright in the head ; hoojs 4 ; fntn hnooth, wit - 
out plaits. 
12. ELEPHAS. o in either jaw : 
tufiSy Upper elongate, lowei o : 
cw very long,prehenfile: body nakedilh. 
Elephant. 
Inhabits the Torrid Zone, in fwampy places and by the irdes of 
rivers; feeds on the leaves and branches of young trees, par- 
ticularly plantains, eating even the wood; devours grain 
voracioully; gregarious, docile, long-lived, fagaciou^ though 
the brain is Imall; probofcis long, e.vtenfile, contraade, fur- 
irlflrcd at the end with a hook, iervmg the purpofe of a hand, 
with which It takes its food and dnnk, and which 
olf it is deftroyed; is afraid of mice, left when afleep they 
fhould creep into the trachea ; urmes backwards, copulates 
like other quadrupeds ; the female is gravid a year ; tlie young 
fuck the mother with the lips; carries houles 6n lU back, its 
euider fitting upon the neck ; moves quicklv, fwiros dex- 
teroully ; is armed fpr war by the Indians, and was formerly 
by the Romans, with feythes. 
The largeft’of quadrupeds, fometimes weighing 4500 pounds; 
body cinereous, feldom reddifh or white, thinly let with hairs ; 
Wo/iru flat beneath, tip truncate; eja fmall ; tuJks,-wh\oh 
irt only in the upper jaw, far extended beyond the mouth, 
relemble horns, marked with curled fibres ; thefe are the ivory 
of the (hops, and fometimes weigh 150 pounds each ; cars 
large, pendulous, dentate ijkin *ick, callous, impenetrab^ 
mulket-balls, apd yet fenfible of the fting of flies ; ^ 
the breaft; knees flexible ; ncck fliort j hoofs 5 on each tore- 
foot, ’4 on each hind- foot, 
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