ELEPHANT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
No cutting teeth in either jaw; two long tusks; a flexible, 
cartilaginous proboscis. 
Feet round, terminated by five small hoofs. 
Elephas maximus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. i. p. 58. 
Great Elephant. Penn. Hist. Quadr. 1. p. 165. n. 84. pi. 34. 
Sm. Buff. 6. p. 1. pi. 166. Bewick 
Quad. p. 166. Shaw Gen. Zool. pi. 63. 
64. 
When we contemplate an animal whose size and 
strength are so much superior to the rest of the 
creation ; when we consider this animal, notwith- 
standing his enormous bulk, moving in any direc- 
tion at the command of his keeper ; and when we 
are convinced, not only on the authority of the best 
writers, but on the evidence of our own senses, that 
this animal possesses intellects of a superior nature 
to any other brute ! we cannot help being surprised 
that he, who is so well able to remain his own 
master, should so readily become the servant of an- 
other. 
In the interior parts of Africa, where immense 
