The Elephant 
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§ VII. — Pachydermata, or Tliich-slcinned Animals. 
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 
uncouthness of his body. The Ceylon Elephant is 
about ten or twelve feet high, and is much the largest 
of all living quadrupeds. His skin is in general a 
mouse colour, but 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 shape, have the flaps hanging down, instead of 
standing up, as in most quadrupeds. The Elephant is a 
gregarious animal in his wild state, and when domesti- 
cated is susceptible of attachment and gratitude, as well 
as of anger and revenge. Several anecdotes are related 
