ELEPHANT, in zoology. See ELEPHAS.
American ELEPHANT: An animal only known in a
fossil state, and that but partially, from the teeth, some
of the jaw-bones, the thigh-bones, and vertebrae, found
with many others five or six feet beneath the surface on
the banks of the Ohio. But these bones differ in fe-
veral respects from those of the elephant; for which,
see Fossil Bones. As yet the living animal has eva-
ded our search. Mr Pennant thinks it "more than
probable, that it still exists in some of those remote
parts of the vast new continent unpenetrated yet by Eu-
ropeans. Providence maintains and continues every
created species; and we have as much assurance that no
race of animals will any more cease while the earth re-
mains, than seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, sum-
mer and winter, day or night. See MAMMUTH.