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DEAN MAHOMET.
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but generous animal took it up gently, gave it ſuck, and afterwads laid it down in the cradle with the utmoſt ſolicitude. This tenderneſs, which is not unlike gratitude in our ſpecies, proceeded from the kind treatment of it's keeper.
An elephant is commonly ſold by meaſurement; and ſome of thoſe animals, which are young and well trained, are purchaſed at the rate of 150 rupees per cubit: they are meaſured from the head to the tail, which is about ſeven cubits long, and at this calculation will amount to above one hundred pounds ſterling each.
Next to the elephant in bulk and
figure,
