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162 with three pounds of sugar; with hay and green herbs added. That exhibited in 1790, which afforded the interesting memoir by Mr. Bingley, in his "Animal Biography," was allowed twenty-eight pounds of clover, about the same quantity of ship biscuit, and a great quantity of greens daily. Twice or thrice a day, five pails of water were given him. He was fond of sweet wine, and would drink three or four bottles in a few hours. We may presume this to have been on extraordinary occasions.

The Rhinoceros and the Elephant, in the Gardens, have lived on the best possible terms together, never having manifested any animosity towards each other. Major Lally, however, once witnessed from a distant hill in India a most desperate encounter between a large male Elephant and a Rhinoceros, in which the former was vanquished, and compelled to flee.

The last family of the Pachydermata differs much from the other forms of the group. Instead of the massive contour and heavy tread of the Elephants and Rhinoceroses, we find in the Horses an approach to the slender forms, graceful proportions, and fleet motions of the Deer and Antelopes. The neck and limbs are considerably elongated: each foot terminates in a single apparent toe, formed by the two middle toes soldered, as it were, into one, which is enclosed in a rounded, horny hoof. But though there is only one toe developed,