NATURAL HISTORY. 
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This animal is the Behemoth of Job. It 
was known to the Romans, and introduced 
by Angnftiis among other foreign animals 
that graced his triumph over Cleopatra. 
It was worlhipped by the Egyptians, at 
the city of Papremis, as a luperftitious cau- 
tion of avoiding any affront to this animal, 
which they feared might be the cafe, if they 
tefufed him that deification with which they 
had honoured fo many other favage beafts. 
The ELEPHANT. 
T H E elephant is reckoned the largeft of 
all land animals, and, next to man, the 
moft fagacious. They gi'ovv from feven to fif- 
teen feet in height ; and, notwithftanding 
their unwieldy bulk, they will fwira. The 
! trunk with which nature has provided them, 
1 and which anfv'^crs the purpofe of hands to 
feed themfelves, is formed of many rings. 
The eyes are extremely fmall, the legs very 
fliort, and the tail like that of a hog. The 
feet though undivided, have five hoofs 
round their margins. In the upper jaw are 
two vaft tuTlcs, of fix or feven feet long, 
from which we obtain our ivory. In droves 
nothing is more formidable ; wherever they 
march the foreft falls before them. When 
they are thus united, or enraged, it would 
require an army to repel them ; during their 
rutting 
