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A DKSCRIPTON OF 
SECTION VII. ^at&g&ermata, or tirfe.?sfctm& 
THE ELEPHANT. (Elephas Indicus.) 
PROVIDENCE, always impartial in the distribution of its 
gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly 
approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouth- 
ness and ill-shapedness of his body. The Ceylon Elephant, 
is about thirteen feet high, and seven broad, and is much 
the largest of all living animals. His skin is in general a 
mouse colour, but it is sometimes white and sometimes 
black. His eyes are rather small for the size of his head, 
and his ears, which are very expanded and of a peculiar 
