Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 351
ed, elephants were used to pack the earthdown firmly. Long lines of the great creatureswalked backward and forward on an embank-ment, their immense weight pressing the earthinto a solid and compact mass. It is not likelythat in that country anything else could have beenfound so serviceable for this… … LION AND LIONESS ATTACKING AN ELEPHANT. mals as either inhabitants of forests and jungles,or the servants of oriental masters who have noidea of the improvements and inventions of mod-ern times. And yet, elephants have been employedon railroad work. On a road recently built inBurmah, from Rangoon…
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