Nam quod rara vides magis esse animalia quaedam fecundamque minus naturam cernis in illis, at regione locoque alio terrisque remotis multa licet genere esse in eo numerumque repleri; sicut quadripedum cum primis esse videmus in genere anguimanus elephantos, India quorum milibus e multis vallo munitur eburno, ut penitus nequeat penetrari: tanta ferarum vis est, quarum nos perpauca exempla videmus.
For although you see certain animals to be rarer and nature to be less fertile in them, yet in another place and climate and in distant lands there may be many of that kind, and so the number be filled up: as in the race of quadrupeds we see especially snake-handed elephants, which in their many thousands provide an ivory palisade about India, so that none may penetrate within: so great is the quantity of those beasts, of which we see very few specimens.
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