350 RHINOCEROS. 
than in the African, Indian, or Sumatran Rhinoceros ; and 
the fore part of the shaft, above the joint for the patella, 
or knee-pan, is more excavated than in the other fossil 
species found in Britain, viz., the Rhinoceros leptorhinus. 
Although the remains of the great tichorhine Rhino- 
ceros have not been found in such abundance in the caves, 
the unstratified drift, and the post-pliocene fresh-water 
deposits of Britain, as those of its more gigantic con- 
temporary the Mammoth, the two-horned Pachyderm 
seems to have been as extensively distributed over the land 
which now constitutes our island. The works of con- 
tinental paleontologists demonstrate that this Rhinoceros 
was similarly associated with the Mammoth in the more 
recent deposits of France, Germany, and Italy.* 
But the most abundant as well as the best preserved 
specimens of the tichorhine Rhinoceros have been dis- 
covered in the northern latitudes of Asia, which appear 
to have been the regions most frequented by it; and 
where the same evidence has been obtained of its special 
adaptation to colder climates than those inhabited by ex- 
isting Rhinoceroses, as that which has been previously 
detailed in reference to the Mammoth. 
The very remarkable discovery of the extinct Rhino- 
ceros preserved in ice was made nearly twenty years 
before the analogous one of the frozen Mammoth, noticed 
in a foregoing section ;+ and is narrated by Pallas in the 
4th volume of his ‘ Voyages dans Asie Septentrionale, 
(4to., 1793, pp. 130—132), as follows :— 
“T ought here to mention an interesting discovery, 
* Cuvier showed that the famous fossil Morse of Monti, discovered at Mont 
Blancano, near Bologna, was the lower jaw of the Fhdnoceros tichorhinus, (tom. cit. 
p- 73.) 
+ Ante, p- 263. 
