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The INDIAN RHINOCEROS, (Rhinoceros Indicus, Cuv.) 



If the moderns are able to boast of a more extended know- 

 ledge of animated nature than was possessed by the ancients, 

 it must be acknowledged that it is rather the result of their 

 geographical discoveries, than of the zeal of their Governments 

 or commercial Companies for its promotion. And it is hu- 

 miliating to think that the nations, among which a pure love 

 of science is most widely diffused, still should be debarred 

 the contemplation of those rarer species of quadrupeds in- 

 habiting the Old World, which in ancient Rome were 

 repeatedly exhibited to gratify a tyrant's love of ostentation, 

 ZooL Mag.NoA. c 



