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LETTER XXIX.

DEAR SIR,

OF all the animals in the Eat or elewhere, none can equal the elephant in magnitude. To excite your wander, and, at the ame time, afford you ome entertainment, I hall here give; you a particular decription of this quadruped, which is (nem. con.) the larget in the univere. It is from twelve to fifteen feet high, and even broad: it's kin about the belly is o tough, that a word cannot penetrate it: the eyes of it are exceeding mall, the ears large, the body round and full, and the