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came ncccf^ry to ^h^c the
balls; the excessive fatigue they
had occasioned her Majesty, en
dangered her health. f
When rhe-colonels were pre
paring to join their'regiments,
the queen, who regretted the
departure ofthis number of ete-/
, gant young men, who had bc
fcome acce^ry^o her pleasures,
^prefented theming a lift of all
those she wished to keep near
her, and for whom file thertf
fore Solicited leave of absence
from their regiments. Tec
king infiead of reading the note,
'tore it before hermajefty's face,
• declaring that he should bever
y sorry to know the names of
thofc of his officers, who pre
ferred so frivolous an amufe^
went to their duty and their
glory. • .
The ladies of the court were
delighted with the taste of their
miff cfs, because it led to great
splendor of dress, and to certain
'/ salaries and preterits With which
they were gratified.
During her Majesty's lying
in, 1778, flic unfortunately in
troduced a most violent rage of
gaming. She bad a Taro table
regularly eftablfhed. Play rose
so high, that they bad a new
mode of managing their ac
counts. It was impossible for a
person to bring four orfive thou
sand Louis in gold. Boxes were
, contrived, which were filled
with pieces of mother of pearl,
engraved with the name, and on
the ochtf fide the sums of which
they wer^meant to pass. M.
de. Vaup^liere, having desired
his lady to arrange feme p eces
for this purpose, she ingeniously
had be, portrait, with those of
her two children engraved on
them, with thefeu words--—+-
" remember us"-— =— When
this gentleman opened his box
at the table, it occasioned a mo
< mentary surprise; he applauded
the invention laughed, played,
and was ruined!J
^tigt —— —-
NATURAL HISTORY of tht
ELEPHANT.
[From Smellie's Philofopby of NaturalMif
tory.J, ^1
QF ell quadrupeds, of whofehifto
.if and manners tt have any ,
proper knowledge fe *pl#s
-wtefyfr Though h^ze ,
: remote, and his embers.rude &
difproportioßed, Web& him, it
fifft fight, the foot dew
r Rapidity, hir gefa^tofew
facraemm manners and hie fo&ra^ridi
lugdcipuj maiwcr#, anu? jeow
credible. He is the Ifo & ftrofr
'lions
pears alone in the foreft#« hebin'
danger when they undertake
#pa'r • and the vonne and feeble oc
.^C3 when 'digger :pp.:mhe,. A
troop ot etepham cautious a mo^
formidable band. Wherever they
mirch, ch&foreft leems to fall bek^c
them. They bearidwo the branch
es upon whidhth?y feed"; and; if
the, enter an inctolure, the, foon&-
ftroy all the labor, of the hufbind
man. Their iavafnat are the more
tremendoufy so& hardly any
means of repelling them ; for to at
tack a troop \vhen thtf'uGited,
would require a falejarmy. It ison-
I, when one or two elephant: hap
pen to linger behind the rest, that
the hunters dare exert their art and
ingenuity in making an attack; for
an attempt to disturb the troop would
certainly prove fatal to the affailint's.
When an iafult is offered, the ele
phants instantly move forward against
the offender, tots him in the air. with,
their tufa and afterwards trample
him to pieces under their feet, or
rather pillars of flelh and bone. Let
not the* chat&der of thii noble and
majestic animal however be misrepre
sented. With force and dignity he
feteht# every affront ; but, when not
disturbed by petulance or saual in
jury, be nev^r ffiows any hostile in
tention either agtinft man or any
other animal. Elephants live entire
ly on vegetables' have no thirst for
bleed. Such is their social and gen
eroui diffkifitjoo, that, when an in
dividual chances to meet with a lux
urious spot of paftore, he immediate
ly invites them to partake of bis good
fortune.„
,sfe elephant poffeffe, all, he sens
es in perfection ;., Batin the feofe of
touching, h^excellq qll the brute .crt,
attoo. His itunti is the chief instru
ment of this sense. In an elephant
of fourteen feet high, the trunk is a
\&ut eight feet Ind a half in circum
ference^ the bjfe. sft is a large
flefhy tube, divided through ii'fy
whole extent by a septum or •parti
tipi It is capable of motionin every
idifeaioq. The animafocan- Shorten
of lengthen it at pleasure. It an
swers every putpofe of a hand ; for
it grasps large obj^as with-great
' force, and its extremity can lay hold
efa Sixpence, or even of a pin; The:
truck of the elephant affords him the
fame means of address as the ape. It
fetves the pqtye.of an a ftp and
bind. By this inllrament, the ele
tph^nc Conveys large or fmafi,bodies
§0 his inouth, plates them off hit
b:ck, embraces^ hem f^fl or 'throws
them forcibly ata ciftance. In a
state of nature and perfect freedom,
: 'the difpo®ip4, pf ty elepbadt ard
nqtbeQ Upguinaty nor ferogoQs,
uta arynes creatures, and never,
^ateft their strength, or employ their
;._fy@; but' in defending themfelyes
-dr p/dteWrikfteb rafyolpm. "E-,
'vteh'Whs'de]M^ inft/uction
temal, to, ^ra^ht fig^Wpbf
, the.beaYerUhl^ there,&
the accuffpf^
rth^ftYr&ftUi^ anH heac
oui^ bv living atleaft two centuries.
I With bis trunk he re ,'
breach in a wall. To th, prodigy
itrebgtn be- MKy courage, prudence,
hM : ^&fyf de.pistafy^Ab W
ipewed hit facotyte; Wuheut htfr
tuion, they heye foi'oKl to, him
high iptfeadjj powers and moral
virtues Pliny, /B im, Pmarch, &
or her authors of a more modern date,
{have bedewed on the elephant not
only rational manners, but an innate
rePgion, a kind of daily adoration of
rinejun, and moon, the use of ablu
tion before worship, a spirit of divi
nation, piety toward heaven and their
fellow creatures, whom they afloat
the approach of death, and after their
decease, bedew them with tears, and
cover their bodies with earth.
When tamed and^ inftru&ed
by man, the elephant is soon
rendered the mildest and most
obedient of all domeflic ani
,teals. He loves his keeper, ca
reffus him, and anticipates his
"commands. He learns to com
prehend signs, and even to tin-'
derftand the expression <of
founds. He diflinguifhes tones
of command, of anger and of
approbation, and regulates his
actions by his perceptions The
voice of his matter he never mis
takes. His orders are executed
with alacrity, but without any
degree of participation. His
movements are always measur
ed arid sedate, and his charac
ter Writs to correspond with
the gravity of his mass. To acf
comodate those who njount him,
he readily learns tri bend his
knees. With bis trunk he sa
lutes his friends, uses it for raif-;
ing/burdens, and assists in load
ing himfelf. He loves to be
clothed, arid seems to be proud
of gatigy tfappng,.' In 'the
southern regions, he is employ-,
fcd¥% win g w ^ o % plows,
andcharriots- " I was eye wit
riefs," fays P. Philippe, " to the
following fadls. At Goa, there
were always.fome elephantsem-,
ployed in the buildingvf (hips.'
I'bne day went to the tide of the,
river, near which a large ^ip
was building in the city of Goa,
'where ttiere is alafgb tera filiq
with beams for .that purpose.
Some men tie the ends ot the
heavieff begins with"^ rope,
which is handed to the ele
phant, who carries it into his
motitb, : 4& it
fouhdtfiW^l^ jt, with-'
ontanf cdhdu&otyty
' where the fhipi, building, tho^
1 it "had been only bnce'panted
outhphim, Hefometimes dreW'
beams@M^tlW^
men would' have been - unabtf
to move. But, what furprized
! ri mefffiHmbre ? when oth,%fc^
4obftA&d the' toad,^ el^tt„
»of his own beam,
V'lay lip Ms waft'
IVOUIG'CEIv firotl vUHfotdlv 44„„ UJ4XI
'r dortiore ^^ #& Whefr'af "vrcrK,|
I the elebhaWt drAWs edually/and |
Inever 1
itprasfeltive.' i
[Thf man who cooduasthe ^nim^ I
I aF thp pin" "iri hr der ttfoilfh'l'ne ^Crea* 1
curable chat he has been known todrg
of grief, when, io an ^gparded pt
:cxifm of rage, he had kiiedfeis
guide. r:
Adomeflic elephant performs more
labor than could be accompanied by
fix horses • ,but he requires much case
and a great deal of food.
He is fubjed to be overheated, and
mult be led to water twice or thrice a
day; He easily learns to ba^he him
felf. With hit trunk he hicks uplarge
quantities of water, carries it to, bis
mouth, drinks part of it, and by ete-'„
voting his trunk, mikes the remaind
er run over every part of bis body;
To give tome idea of the labor he
I performs, an^ the docility of his dif
pefuion, it is worthy of remark, that
in India, all the bales, lacks and tons,
frat(ported front one place to another, r
are carried by &phtyf.' They carry
burdens op their bodies, their necks
and their tefc, and even in their
mouihs, by giving them rhe end of
a rope, which they hold faft with
their teeth; Uniting fagaoit,: with
ftrengrb, they never break or ^injure
any thing committed to their charge.
From the margins of rivers, they put
weighty bundles into boats withcot
weeing chemi lay them down gently,
and arrange them where they ought
to be placed. When the goods are
disposed as their misters dire&, they
examine with their trunks whether the
articles ^re properly flowed ; and if a
c^fk or ton rolls they go fpontapeouft
1, in quest .of faes to prop and Iffy
der it firm..
CURIOUS PARTICULAR,^
A Toad was feeri to fight with a Spi
der in Rhodeiflind; and when the
fosmerwas bit, it hopped to fplan
tain leaf, bit off a piece, and then en
gaged with/the fpid& igain. After
thjlhlkf been repeated (Unity time?,
a fpedator pulled up the plantain and
put it out of the way. 1 The toad, on r
being bit again, jumped to where the
plantain had fed, and a, it was not
to be fouo,d, foe hopped round feve
rahimtytpfn£d over on her back,
fwfelled/up^and died immediately.—
This is an evident demonftrationlhat
the juteWotthi plantain is an antidote
againffthe bites of those venomous
GEOGRAPHY.
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XHE following “particulars re-,
ipe&ing; the foil and cli-,
mate of Kentucky, have been
received froma gentleman of,
voracity, Who 'pent nine months
in visiting that country, aboye,
-He fneafure,d three stalks of r
Indian lorn in a common held,„
: wh&e'the rest of the growth
wig much the fame.; One of
^w,fr& t
shot up four inches and three
quarters ; , a iccona, tnree incn,;
¥t^ I^ IB^¥%
riJ^'^ ^"^^
[ltem was nine teet'eight incheg. •
diameter, about three deeoronL
the ground. ;about a, nur)-.,,
I Arpr lnrrpc nf InnA frherß ulprp?
IVI 11( Icherries are irequenu)
to be met with there, three reer, ;
IlXl4'l'3 Cl 4Xi CaU&„VU,.,VIh °'y= r /