226 EXTINCT MONSTERS. 



But at Klagenfurt the popular legend has happily found a 

 mouthpiece; the head of the pretended dragon killed by the 

 valorous knight is preserved in the Hotel de Ville, and this 

 head has furnished the sculptor of the fountain with a model for 

 the head of his statue. Herr Unger, of Vienna, recognised at 

 a glance the cranium of the fossil rhinoceros ; its discovery in 

 some cave had probably originated the fable of the knight and 

 the dragon. It is always interesting to discover a scientific basis 

 for fables which otherwise it would be difficult to account for. 



The same rhinoceros was once a denizen of our country, and 

 its remains are met with in caves and river-gravels. Specimens 

 of its skull have also been dredged up by fishermen from the 

 " Dogger Bank " in the North Sea. 



