Scribner's magazine . An Indian Elephant. breed in captivity, its reproduction inthat state is exceptional, and it is manyyears before the offspring are fit forany service. It is indeed about thirtyyears before the creature is sufficient-ly adult to attain a good measure ofstrength and endurance. It has there- in our other domesticated quadrupedshave been slowly developed by thou-sands of years of selection and inter-course with man, are in this creature apart of its wild estate. It appears from trustworthy anec-dotes, that the Asiatic elephants in a few.

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