. Waldie's select circulating library. ing between them. The elei»hant stood about two hundred and fifty yardsto the right of tlie landing place, on the side of one ofthe hills above mentioned, and not far from a ruined Por-tuguese edifice. Nothing could be more rudely sculp-tured than this figure, which possessed none of the grace-fulness of the living elephant, though in .some of thesculptures in the cave temples of India that character isexceedingly well preserved. I was in much too great ahurry at my first visit to think of measuring or drawingthis singular specimen of ancient Hindoo art;
. Waldie's select circulating library. ing between them. The elei»hant stood about two hundred and fifty yardsto the right of tlie landing place, on the side of one ofthe hills above mentioned, and not far from a ruined Por-tuguese edifice. Nothing could be more rudely sculp-tured than this figure, which possessed none of the grace-fulness of the living elephant, though in .some of thesculptures in the cave temples of India that character isexceedingly well preserved. I was in much too great ahurry at my first visit to think of measuring or drawingthis singular specimen of ancient Hindoo art; but abouta year afterwards, in company with Mr. William Erskine,of Bombay, corojilcte sets of measurements of all his di-mensions were made, and I also took a sketch of thefigure, theij almost totterii)g to its fall. The wood cuthere inserted Is from a drawing made on the spot, and,though slight, it conveys a pretty correct idea of the formand proportions of this celebrated figure. Some of thedinjensions which we took are also Length from the forehead to the tail 13 2 Height of the head 7 4 Circumference at the height of the shoulders 35 5 Circumference round the four legs . 33 0 Breadth of the back 8 0 Girth of the body 20 0 Length of the legs, from .j ft. to . GOCircumference of ditto, from 6 feet 3 inches to 7 7 Length of the supporter .... 22Length of the tail (not seen in the above sketch) 7 9 Length of the trunk 7 10 Remains of the riglit tusk . . Oil NEW SERiKs. vor,. II. 21. In September 1S14, belbre I left India, the head andneck dropped oif, and the body shortly afterwards sunkdown to the earth ; so that, I iear, all traces of our oldand much respected friend will by this time have disap-peared. For the sake of those who take an interestthese things, I am glad we bestirred ourselves in time,and that quite as minute an account as can be desired ofthe Elephant, in all his bearings, is faithfully recorded inthe first volume of the transactions of the Bombay Lite
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