OF QUADRUPEDS. 
73 
ELEPHANT. 
Although the Elephant has a more reten- 
tive memory, and more intelligence than 
any other animal, he has a smaller brain 
than any of them. He is, at the same time, 
n miracle of intelligence, and a monster of 
matter. His body is very thick, without 
any suppleness ; his neck is short and stiff; 
ms head is small and deformed ; his ears are 
of excessive diameter; his legs are like mas- 
Slve pillars, straight and stiff; his feet arc 
small; and his skin is hard, thick, and cal- 
lous. His sense of feeling centers in his 
trunk, which he can not only move and bend, 
nut shorten, lengthen, and turn any way. 
t he extremity of this trunk terminates by an 
. S e , with which he picks up the smallest 
Pieces of money from the ground, and is so 
■exible, that he uses it as dexterously as a 
ma h does his hand. 
