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72 it receives it's proviions, the trunk erving the purpofs of a hand to feed it, and a weapon to defend it. So trong is this powerful animal, that it can lift a prodigious weight; and o delicate in the ehation of feeling, that it can take the mallet piece of, coin from the ground; delights much in water, and will wim a, great way.

They are taken by tratagem in different parts of India, as they decend from the mountains, where they feed; to the lakes or rivers, to water. The hotteewallies, or people employed to take them dig deep trenches in their direction, which they conceal with reeds covered over with earth and gras; the