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Show 26 - e g e ed General Defeription Net-work, but fo extraordinary hard, tha it will turn;the cdge it is harder upon the-back then the belly. Fo the chewing of their meat' },C have four Teeth within, befides thofe that fii k out before, which fiand crook)etd? the Male, and down-right in the Female The nether Jaw-bone is only movl in hewing, the upper always refts. 1In tha place where the Nofe js p]acedc other Creatures, the Elephant has a lon Trunk or Snout, which reaches to d; gro i . Wil '," Wi ¥ g x | e 3 ey z E l(,'/J/; ar I " A = - wi b fiii nd, and hasaflit at theend : Thi y, which th make ule of inftead of a hand 5 for the either e{ or dry, and putit into their mouths i 'v 'fig i i ®f-th extraordinary y Docility o the > y of this Beaft there are rfevera Example t b o Yy the ancient an .modem, as well Chinef asothe Writers Pliniy writes, that they fling up Armsinto the Arr and that they fence with one anothe Orifan the tinfe and manner of Copulation there js as great varie Hif s. - Pliny {ays, that the Male and the Femal a g 1 but Ariftotle gives them alonge time, alcribing twenty to the gcl)lt]h 5 thl)xupFe maleat twelve, and the Male a cight years. This AG of Generatim th: - de moft commonly in the Water, as being moft eafie for them oth 3 and that igth moft private recefles they can find out, and but once inthre y a r the Male make ufe of one Female any mor then once, After tl;e have dom coupling, they grow wild and turious, doing much hurt where the cz e Ho tong they go before they caft thei Young, is uncertain : Some fyeak o a ye and fik nflonths 5 others fay three years, and fome ten. ' The blr)in forth \) \//ir great pain, leaning backward upon their hinder Legs. Some wri)t/:e thagt they brin fanorth bue one at atime ; others four : asfoon as j is brought for;:h it {ees gocs d {ucks th'h the moufb, and not with the Snout, ¢l it is cight y Ca,rs 1d. )The y ;}f;oge }/\}/]afl: with the Rhmocero.s LXOH' Snal(e, T}fger, Ram, Hog and Dragon mg,«t‘;]ltE Omf COIOUI?' and wichFire. " The Rhmoccros, as 15 {aid before, is hi I W th Provine ¥> Whic he knows to be the fofteft part abot fiercer then Lyons. and ver ilOt : dt . o ‘O*."‘mg/ , they: are il a? eager in _t.l;ze purfuit ‘of Man, \'Vom'an, o b inyf Child ;- But Namz* lort ‘provided a means whereby to avoid fIh crucit |