THE ELEPHANT. 
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^iTow. They also eat its flesh, which, ac- 
cording to them, is of excellent flavour. 
THE ELEPHANT. 
As the elephant surpasses all other terrestrial 
Animals in magnitude and strength, so is he 
^Iso more gentle and tractable than almost 
^ny other, and in sagacity and docility he is 
•lot excelled by any, excepting perhaps the 
dojj. 
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The usual height of this animal is nine or 
feet, though he is said to be sometimes 
^ound of the height of twelve feet. His body 
of a very clumsy form ; the head large ; the 
^ack much arched ; the legs short and ex- 
^temely thick. His eyes are very small ; his 
Cars large, pendulous, and irregularly waved 
about the edges. The trunk attached to the 
’aiuzzle of the elephant is one of the most 
