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flesh with little less horror than a cannibal. 
•Span-man relates that he saw the huts of some 
Hottentots in the service of a farmer on Biep- 
rivier covered over with zig-zag slips of ele- 
phant's flesh, some inches in breadth, and several 
fathoms in length, which they had thus laid out 
to dry ; some of those slips were wound round 
the huts, and others stretched between two. It 
was in the beginning of November ; they had 
lately been successful in the chace ; and <s at 
this time," says this lively naturalist, men, 
women, and children, had here no other employ- 
ment, but sleeping, smoking, and eating ele- 
phant's flesh." 
The tusks of the elephant have long been 
applied, under the denomination of ivory, to a 
variety of important uses, in the arts. Ivory is 
a material as well for the fine as for the mechanic 
arts. In the country of Sogno, in Lower Ethio- 
pia, the natives distil a water from the bones oi 
the elephant's legs, which they esteem an excel- 
lent remedy for asthmas, sciaticas, and several 
other complaints. The Giaghi regard the tail 
of this animal with religious veneration. When 
a chief or sovereign dies, an elephant's tail is 
consecrated to preserve his memory. The animal 
is hunted merely for his tail. A sacred tail must 
always have been cut off from a living elephant, 
and at a single stroke. 
It is a most curious fact, and may well excite 
our astonishment, that skeletons resembling those 
©f elephants are occasionally found in a fossil 
state, and in large quantities, at a great depth 
under the surface, in the most northern parts of 
Asia. 
All the arctic circle," says Mr. Peqnant, ** is 
a vast mossy fiat, formed of a bed of mud or sand, 
seeming the effect of the sea, and which gives reason 
