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THE ELEPHANT
The rest of this performance is wanting, but I am persuaded, that those, who have a Taste for Butler's Turn and Humour, will think this too curious a Fragment to be lost, though perhaps too imperfect to be formally published. How just this satirical Representation is, and to what particular Men and Treatises the Poet alludes, the Reader may best judge by consulting the Philosophical Transactions of that Age, but more particularly Sprat's Account of the Enquiries and Speculations in which the Members of the Royal Society at first employed themselves.
