THE ELEPHANT OF INDIA, 
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In Europe, the Elephant is only known in con- 
finement, from animals captured when young and 
imported, or from one or two adult specimens 
sent as presents. In this country, till very lately, 
they have always been kept in a situation too 
confined to afford any good idea of their man- 
ners, and in the restraint of a cage could only 
exhibit a few tricks, taught them by their keepers, 
to please the popular part of their visiters ; but 
they give us no idea of the healthy animal among 
his own luxuriant foliage. In the more extended 
paddock, and supply of water which our various 
zoological gardens now allow to the large 
Pachydermes, we may expect an improvement of 
their keeping, and to see them in as free a con- 
dition as we can well expect, without going to 
look for them in India or Africa. 
The most remarkable Asiatic Elephant which 
manufacture of handles for knives ; but it is also exten- 
sively used in the manufacture of musical and mathematical 
instruments, chess-men, billiard-balls, plates for minia- 
tures, toys, &c. Ivory articles are said to be manufactured 
to a greater extent, and with better success, at Dieppe, 
than in any other place in Europe. But the preparation of 
this beautiful material is much better understood by the 
Chinese, than by any other people. No European artist 
has hitherto succeeded in cutting concentric balls after the 
manner of the Chinese : and their boxes, chess-men, and 
other ivory articles, are all far superior to any that are to 
be met with any where else M' Culloch’s Dictionary of 
Commerce, p. 737. 
