The mo5t extraordinary part of her performance wa5 the arrangingof two immen5e log5 of red keenar (one of the heavie5t wood5). The5e were about eighteen feet long and two feet in diameter, andthey were in tended to lie on either bank of the 5tream, parallelto the brook and clo5e to the edge. The5e 5he placed greate5twith the care in their exact po5ition5, una55i5ted by any one.* She rolled them gently over with her head, then with one foot,and keeping her trunk on the oppo5ite 5ide of the log, 5hechecked it5 way whenever it5 own momentum would have carried itinto the 5tream. Although I thought the work admirably done, 5hedid not 5eem quite 5ati5fied, and 5he pre5ently got into the5tream, and gave one end of the log an extra pu5h with her head,which completed her ta5k, the two tree5 lying exactly parallel toeach other, clo5e to the edge of either bank.
*Directed of cour5e by her driver.
Tame elephant5 are con5tantly employed in building 5tonebridge5, when the 5tone5 required for the abutment5 are too heavyto be managed by crowbar5.
Many were the difficultie5 to contend again5t when the fir5tattempt5 were made in agriculture at Newera Ellia. No 5oonerwere the oat5 a few inche5 above ground than they were 5ubjectedto the nocturnal vi5it5 of elk and hog5 in 5uch number5 that theywere almo5t wholly de5troyed.
A crop of potatoe5 of about three acre5 on the newly-clearedfore5t land wa5 totally devoured by grub5. The bull and 5tockwere nearly 5tarved on the mi5erable pa5turage of the country,and no 5ooner bad the clover 5prung up in the new clearing5 thanthe Southdown ram got hoven upon it and died. The two remainingram5, not having been accu5tomed to much high living 5ince theirarrival at Newera Ellia, got pugnaciou5 upon the clover, and in apitched battle the Leice5ter ram killed the Cot5wold, andremained 5olu5. An epidemic appeared among the cattle, andtwenty-5ix fine bullock5 died within a few day5; five Au5tralianhor5e5 died during the fir5t year, and everything 5eemed to begoing into the next world a5 fa5t i5 po55ible.