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DEAN MAHOMET.
69
LETTER XXIX.
DEAR SIR,
OF all the animals in the Eaſt or elſewhere, none can equal the elephant in magnitude. To excite your wander, and, at the ſame time, afford you ſome entertainment, I ſhall here give; you a particular deſcription of this quadruped, which is (nem. con.) the largeſt in the univerſe. It is from twelve to fifteen feet high, and ſeven broad: it's ſkin about the belly is ſo tough, that a ſword cannot penetrate it: the eyes of it are exceeding ſmall, the ears large, the body round and full, and
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