ing of whom it was intrufted, and who had given him the name of Moro, faid, "Give me your hand, poor Moro," it raifed the fore part, ftretched out its hand, and bending the phalanges, really interlocked it with the hand prefented to it. Although its conformation did not permit it to be very agile, it walked or rather crept with fome degree of celerity. One day that its keeper, thinking it afleep, had left the door of its chamber open, the animal got out and defcended seven or eight fteps to find again its keeper who was taking the air on an efplanade. It was remarked that it had not deviated a line, (the 12th part of an inch) from the way by which the perfon it was feeking had paffed more than an hour be fore. We fhould have fome difficulty to believe thefe facts, fay the authors of the Decade Philofophique, if they did not make part of a relation fent by the prefect of Golo, who was himself occafionally a witness of it: it was in contemplation to fend it to Paris, but it was not long before it was found to be wafting away. The diet to which it was on the caufe than a wound was, it had received on the right foot, it was not known how, and which every day grew worfe and worfe. of youth, about fix years old, and handsome in every respect. The fecond was named Jenny; we were told fhe was about forty years old. This was the oldeft lionefs ever seen in the Tower, although for five hundred years this kind of animal has been kept there. She has been mother of nine young lions, all begotten by a lion named Marco, now dead. These nine young lions died in rearing, with the exception of Nero, who died about two years ago, having lived to be ten years old; and of Nancy, who lived double that age. It was not without extreme care that they could preferve these two laft young lions, for no animals are more difficult to rear, on account of the convulfions which they are subject to at the period of dentition. They were kept for the first year in a warm chamber, and fed with milk. They were as gentle as fheep, but their natural ferocity was quickly developed with their growing ftrength." TH HORSE WITHOUT HAIR. HE French journals make mention of a horse without hair, which is ftated to have been bought at Vienna ten years ago. He is about twenty years old, eats the fame food, and in the fame quantity, as ordinary horfes; is lean, and very fenfible to cold. Over his whole body he has no other hair than one at the lower eye-lid. The fkin is black, approaching to grey, with fome white fpots about the groin, foft to touch, fhining, and rather unctuous. The skin of the nofe, of all the noftrils, and of the lips, is like that of the reft of the body. The bones of the nofe are depreffed, which embarraffes his refpiration, and makes him utter a noise whenever he takes or refpires breath. Citizen LASTEYRIE, by whom this notice is given, is of opinion, that this horfe forms a variety in the fpecies, and that its state is neither the effect of art, nor of difeafe. IN A CHILD WITH TWO HEADS. N the 80th volume of the Philofophical Tranfactions there is a paper by E. Home Efq. giving an account of a child with a double head. The child had been born in India, where he died when he was upwards of four years old; his double skull was fent to England, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Society. Mr. Dent, the gentleman who had tranfmitted the above mentioned fkull from India, returning not long ago to England, furnished Mr. Home with further particulars relative to the double-headed child; and likewife two portraits of him; namely, a front view and a profile of the double head, taken whilst the child was living, by a Mr. Devis, an artist of confiderable merit. Two copper-plate engravings of the por traits are annexed to the paper. The additional remarks, which were furnished by Mr. Dent are as follows: The child was a male. The mother had had three other children naturally formed. She could affign no imaginary or accidental caufe during her pregnancy, that might have been productive of the monstrous child. The body of the child was uncommonly thin. "The neck of the fuperior head was about four inches long; and the upper part of it terminated in a hard, round grifly tumour, nearly 4 inches in diamiter. "The front teeth had cut the gums in the upper and lower jaw of both heads. "When the child cried, the features of the fuperior head were not always affected; and when it fmiled, the features of the fuperior head did not fympathize in that action. "The dura mater belonging to each brain was continued across, at the part where the two skulls joined, so that each brain was invected in the ufual way, by its own proper coverings; but the dura mater, which covered the cerebum of the upper brain, adhered firmly to the dura mater of the lower brain." A number of large ateries, and veins were found paffing through the union of the dura matres; it was therefore through thofe blood-veffels that the upper brain received its nourishment. ON THE ELEPHANT. T is a matter of wonder, that though elephants have been I long after, fize, fagacity, and docility, yet the knowledge of their economy, manners, &c. has been always involved in mystery and doubt. A refidence of upwards of ten years in Tiperah, à province of Bengal, where herds of elephants are caught every feason, afforded John Corfe Efq. opportunities fufficient to afcertain feveral interesting particulars, and enabled him to contradict many vulgar errors relative to those animals. It has been repeatedly afferted, that elephants poffefs the fentiments of modefty in a high degree and that they are fo much affected by the lofs of their liberty, as to refuse to propagate the fpecies whilft they remain in a ftate of captivity. The ufual fize of thofe animals has likewife been much exaggerated. It has been afferted, as an inftance of their great fagacity, and retentive memory, that if an elephant once efcapes, it is not poffible to catch him again by any art. Mr. Corfe's obfervations contradict thofe vulgar notions; he reduces their fize to the real ftandard, and afcertains feveral other particulars relative to thefe animals. We fhall endeavour to condense the most remarkable particulars into the following paragraqhs: Several elephants, to Mr. Corfe's certain knowledge, after having effected their efcape, have been retaken, and often in a very eafy manner. In India, the height of female elephants is, in general, from feven to eight feet, and that of males from eight to ten, meafured at the fhoulder. One elephant only, amongst those that came within Mr. Corfe's knowledge, exceeded the height of ten feet. The dimenfions of this elephant were as follows: "From foot to foot over the shoulder to march in ftate feet. inches. 22 10 10 6 12 2 From the front of the face to the infertion of the tail 15 11. Tame elephants copulate without hefitation, provided the females are in a proper ftate; and Mr. Corfe, befides a great many other perfons has been repeatedly fpectator of the fact, The females begin to give evident figns of impregnation within about three months from the time of their having been covered. Their ufual time of geftation feems to be about 21 months, or 20 months and 18 days. The elephant at the time of its birth, feldom exceeds the height of thirty-four inches; and they generally obtain their full fize, between the age of eighteen and twenty-four years. The young elephants begin to nibble, and fuck the breaft foon after birth. "Tame elephants," fays Mr. Corfe," are never fuffered to remain loofe; as inftances occur of the mother leaving even her young, and escaping into the woods, "Another circumftance deferves notice: if a wild elephant happens to be feperated from her young, for only two days, though giving fuck, fhe never afterwards recognizes or acknowl edges it. This feperation fometimes happened unavoidably, when they were enticed feparately into the outlet of the Keddah. I have been much mortified at fuch unnatural conduct in the mother; particularly when it was evident the young elephant knew its dam, and by its plaintive cries and fubmiffive approaches folicited her affiftance," REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF THE REGENERA. TION OF A FRUIT TREE. TH From an English Publication. HE following piece of natural history has been thought by many of my friends fo curious as to be worthy of being communicated to the public. I therefore fend it to you, that if you think it merits the notice of your readers, you may give it a place in your valuable mifcellany: About the middle of my garden ftood an old plumb-tree, which had gone to decay, and loft most of its branches. As it produced little, if any fruit, and shaded the green-house, I ordered it to be cut down towards the end of the year 1793. The head and the root were cut off and burned, with a part of the trunk, the lower part of which, about eight or nine feet in length, lay on the ground all the winter. In the fpring of the year 1794, having occafion to make a Boarded fence to fcreen the cucumber-bed, I ordered this old tree to be put in the ground as a poft, merely to fave the expence of a new one. As the spring advanced, I obferved feveral leaves thoot forth toward the top of it, which I expected fhortly to wither away but they grew confiderably in the fummer; and the next fpring, to my aftonifhment, they put forth again, and several bloffoms appeared. In the course of that year thefe little fhoots became vigorous branches, and the year following produced twelve or fourteen fine plumbs, much like a damfön, but of a much larger fize. The body of the tree still appears old and decayed, but the branches have continued to grow more luxuriant than thofe of any young tree in the garden. The last year it was full of bloffoms; but the fharp north-east wind cut then all off. At this time there is the appearance of a fine bloom. s this free ftands at the entrance from the garden into the burying-ground, it has often reminded me of the striking contraft, fo finely illuftrated in the book of Job, between "a tree cut down, of which there is hope," and the bodies of men, which, when once laid in the duft, "rife not till the heavens be no moré.” See Job xiv. 7-12. " I' AGRICULTURA L. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF FARM YARDS. F the making of good manure in large quantities be deferving of the particular regard of the practical farmer; the form and conftruction of the places in which it is to be made or preferved, furely ftill more powerfully claim his regard, as being not only the principal hinges on which his fuccefs must depend, but on which that of his whole fyftem of husbandry must turn. It is however extremely common to fee extenfive farm-yards unprovided with the means of collecting and preferving the richest and moft powerful manures, and farmers quite inattentive and regardlefs of their lofs. In fome instances there are neither drains for conveying the moisture from the places in which the animals are |