indescribable; all the little animals were with their legs in the air, claret and brandy poured in rivulets down the street, cooleys screamed as they threw themselves into the doors and windows, and at one fell swoop the angry gentleman demolished the major part of the comforts of the officers, who were little aware how much they were to sacrifice for the sake of an extra tent. With my eyes I followed my friend in his reckless career, until he was enveloped and hid from my view in a cloud of dust, and that was my farewell of him. I turned round, and observed close to me the Quarter-Master-General, looking with all his four eyes at the effects of his inhumanity."

A young elephant received a severe wound in its head, the pain of which rendered the animal so ungovernable, that whenever any person approached, it ran off with fury, and would suffer no person to come within several yards of it. The keeper at length contrived to make the mother of the animal understand that he was anxious to have the wound dressed, when she immediately seized her young one with her trunk, and held it firmly, though groaning with agony, while the wound was completely dressed; and she continued to perform this service till the animal recovered.

"I have frequently remarked (says Terry, in his 'Voyage to the East Indies') that the elephant performs many actions which would seem almost the immediate effects of reason. He does anything his master commands. If he be directed to terrify any person, he runs upon him with every appearance of fury, and, when he comes near, stops short, without

When the master chooses makes the elephant acwhen the animal collects

doing him the least injury. to affront any person, he quainted with his wishes, muddy water with his trunk, and squirts it upon the object pointed out to him."

Madame de Jeck, the celebrated performer, could never be induced to go upon any strange stage without being allowed to examine it, which she would do most cautiously and in detail, evidently with a view of ascertaining whether it was sufficiently strong to bear her weight; but she did not confine her investigation merely to the stage, she examined the scenes, the grooves, and every part.

Ducrow, with a very few lessons, taught an elephant belonging to Wombwell to perform several tricks on the stage. In the course of his performance, the elephant had to cross a platform, which, one evening, gave way in a trifling degree beneath his weight. On approaching it the following night, the animal would not mount it, till by a strict examination he was satisfied that he might trust himself upon it with safety. Upon one occasion, I stumbled and fell against this elephant in the dark, when I perceived his trunk instantly round me; with no evil design, however, for the good-natured animal no sooner perceived I was unhurt, than he began to fumble for my waistcoat pockets, out of which I had been in the habit of allowing him to take gingerbread.

Will any person be hardy enough to deny, after perusing the preceding well-authenticated anecdotes (to which hundreds more might be added), the possession of reasoning powers by the elephant ?

To assert that the form of the elephant resembles

that of the human species, would appear, at the first blush of the case, an outrageous comparison; yet, on due consideration, an extraordinary correspondence, if not a striking similitude, will become manifest. That joint which unites the thigh and the hind leg, and which in the horse is known by the name of the hock, bends inwards, like the knee of a human being, and which, strictly speaking, constitutes the knee of the elephant, corresponding as it does with the same part in man-a formation the reverse of every other quadruped. Then again, the teats of the female are situated more forward (much nearer the fore legs) than those of any other class of the brute creation, the monkey tribe alone excepted. Further, the forehead is equally remarkable for its superior elevation; while that wonderful provision of nature, the proboscis or trunk, by its length, its flexibility, and its finger-like extremity, becomes an admirable substitute for a hand, with which, I make no doubt most of my readers are well aware, the interesting beast in question can pick up a sixpence, or even a pin, from the ground. Hence it would clearly appear, that as in the human race the most perfect physical forms produce the highest intellectual capacities, so, as we descend the chain of animated existence, we shall find, the nearer the creature approximates the conformation and physiology of the former, the greater sagacity it will be found to possess. Monkeys suckle their young from the breast; something very similar constitutes a part or portion of the animal economy of the elephant. Having noticed the peculiar structure of the hock or knee of this curious animal, if we consider the formation of

the fore leg, we shall perceive it differs from that of all other quadrupeds; it contains a joint less than that of the horse, and seems altogether a sort of awkward approximation towards the arm of man, the upper joint supplying the place of the elbow, the lower that of the wrist.

The rhinoceros, in bulk nearly equal to the elephant, and, like the latter, existing beneath the burning climates of the tropics, whose habits and manner of feeding are much the same, offers, nevertheless, a striking contrast on the score of intellectual capacity. The head of this animal, unlike that of the elephant, is depressed, much depressed; and therefore, as there is very trifling, if any, frontal celebral development, little sagacity can be expected, nor has it ever been known to manifest any symptoms which could possibly imply the power of deduction. There happens, at this moment, to be one of these creatures at the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, which appears to be full grown; and within a few yards of his stable, will be found a fine specimen of the Asiatic elephant. Let any person, who feels sufficiently interested in the subject, visit the Gardens just mentioned; and, after examining the different structures of the heads of these two animals, let him observe the expression of their countenances, and I think he will agree with me, that the elephant is as much superior to his bulky neighbour in the evidences or indications of intelligence, as his frontal or forehead presents a greater elevation.

On the score of sagacity, the dog is entitled to rank next the elephant. The dog in a state of nature presents no more varieties, in all probability,

than result from the effect of climate; but having been the companion of man from time immemorial, having experienced a degree of familiar domestication far beyond that of any other quadruped, he has undergone changes in his form, his colour, and his character; and, from this circumstance, and a sort of indiscriminate communication or commixture, has branched out into interminable ramifications. However, notwithstanding the indefinite branches to which I have just alluded, inasmuch as the services of this animal were of the first importance to the sportsman, the shepherd, and others, distinct classifications have been carefully maintained, to which I shall chiefly confine my observations.

Inferior to the elephant in the frontal projection of the head, and consequently in its results or manifestations, the dog is, nevertheless, superior to the horse or the cow in these respects, as must be evident to any person capable of reflection, who will notice the one and observe the other. It is generally supposed that what is called the Newfoundland dog and the poodle are, on the score of sagacity, superior to all the other varieties of the tribe; but this is not the case, as, on investigation, it will be perceived, that this quality, sagacity, or a lower order of reason, exists in proportion to the elevation and breadth of the frontal, or anterior region of the brain; as a proof of which, the modern greyhound may be instanced his head is narrow and depressed in a greater degree than any other acknowledged variety of the tribe, and his manifestations of sagacity amount to nothing; or, at least, they are of the