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ever, without appearing to slacken his pace, and 
without having received any command for that pur- 
pose, assisted them with his trunk, removed some, 
and stepped over the rest with so much address and 
assiduity, that not one person was wounded. 
Although the Asiatic elephant has in all pro- 
bability been subjected by the natives from time 
immemorial, yet we do not find any mention made 
of his military services till the time of Alexander ; 
when Porus, king of India, appeared on the banks 
of the Hydaspes, to oppose the passage of the con- 
queror, with eighty-five elephants in his train ; 
while he, who exceeded the usual stature of men, 
clothed in his armour glittering with gold and sil- 
ver, and mounted on an elephant of a much larger 
size than any of the rest, appeared at the same time 
terrible and majestic. 
We cannot finish the history of this interesting 
animal, without noticing a singular fact respecting 
some fossil remains found in this country. The 
teeth of a hippopotamus, and the entire tusk of 
an elephant, nine feet in length, which is one of 
the longest ever discovered, together with other 
bones of the same animal, were found buried at 
the distance of thirty feet under ground, by some 
workmen of Mr. Trimmer, at Brentford, near Lon- 
don. 
The figure of the elephant which accompanies 
this account was done from the animal in a state 
of nature, and differs considerably from the figures 
