«5 
ELEPHANT. 
No cutting teeth ; two vaft tufks ; a long probofcis. 
Feet round, terminated by five finall'hoofs. 
'EXetpa,/; Arifi. Hijff. An » lib. I. fans e voy. 138. Moore’s trav. 31. 
t. ij. IX. c. 1 . ___ Born’s account Cochin China, 795. 
Elephas Plinii, lib, viii. c. 1. Gef- Barbot’s Guinea, 141, 206, 207, 
ner quad. 376. Rail fyn. quad. 131. 208. Seb.Muf.l. 175. tab. in, 
Klein quad. 36. Ludolph. JEthiop. Edw. 221 . 
54. BoullayeLe Gouz. 250. Del- L’Elephant BriJJon quad. 28. de 
Ion’s voy. 71. Leo Afr. 336. £0/- Buffon, xi. 1. tab. I. 
II. 98. Bofmans hijl. Elephas maximus Lin. Jyfi. 48. 
Guinea, 23 O. Linfckottan iter, 57. Faunul. Sine ns. Br.Muj . AJbm. 
Du Haiders China, II. 224. Adan- Muf. 
E. with a long cartilaginous trunk, formed of mul- 
tudes of rings, pliant in all directions, terminated 
with a fmall moveable hook : the noftrils at the end 
of the trunk ; its ufe thgt of a hand, to convey 
any thing into the mouth : no cutting teeth : four 
large flat grinders in each jaw ; in the upper two 
vaft tufks, pointing forwards, and bending a little 
upwards; the largeft * are feven feet long, and 
weigh 1521b. each: the eyes fmall: ears long, 
broad and pendulous: back much arched: legs 
thick and very clumfy and fhapelefs : feet undivid¬ 
ed ; but the margins terminated by five round hoofs: 
tail like that of a hog: color of the fkin dufky, 
with a few fcattered hairs on it. 
The largeft of land animals: there are certain 
* To be underftood of thofe imported into England. 
G % 
XIV. ELE¬ 
PHANT, 
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