352 RHINOCEROS. 
courts). ‘The eyelids and eyelashes even had not entirely 
fallen into decay. I saw a substance in the cavity of the 
skull; and here and there, beneath the skin, were the re- 
mains of the putrified flesh. I remarked on the feet the 
very obvious remains of the tendons and cartilages, where 
the skin was wanting. The head had lost its horn,* and 
the feet their hoofs. The situation of the horn, the fold 
of integument which surrounded it, and the separation” 
(of the toes?) + ‘ which existed in the fore-feet and hind- 
feet are certain proofs of the animal being a Rhinoceros.’ 
I have given an account of this singular discovery in the 
Memoirs of the Academy of Petersburg, and refer my 
readers to that work to save repetition. They will there 
see the reasons in proof that a Rhinoceros has been able 
to penetrate near the Lena in high northern latitudes, and 
the circumstances that have led to the discovery in Siberia 
of the remains of so many strange animals.” 
In this Memoir, Pallas specifies the short hairs, strongly 
implanted in pores of the skin covering the vertex, and 
growing in tufts (fasciculatim nascentes) from the sides 
of the mandibular region, of rigid texture and cinereous 
grey colour, with here and there a black hair longer and 
stiffer than the rest. The hairs adhered to many parts 
of the skin of the legs, from one to three lines long, of a 
dirty cinereous colour. So much hair as grew from the 
parts of the frozen Rhinoceros observed by Pallas, he never 
* “Tia téte étoit dégarnie de sa corne,” are the words of the French translator 
and editor Peyronie ; but Pallas, in his Memoir, expressly mentions the two horns : 
“ Cornua cum capite adlata non fuerunt, prius forte abrupta et a flumine vel trans- 
euntibus gentilibus, qui venationi operam nayant, ablata. Apparent autem cornw 
nasalis pariter atque frontalis evidentissima vestigia.” Novi Comment. Petropol., 
tom. xvil. p. 588. 
+ Inthe Memoir, “ De Reliquiis animalium exoticorum,” Pallas, speaking of 
the feet, says, “ In quibus non solum divisura ungularum, Rhinocerotis character- 
istica, sed corium pariter,” &e. 
