THE RHINOCEROS. 43 



takes its course. To revert to the one-horned rhinoceros, 

 of which Dr. Smith heard in the interior of South Africa, 

 and of which Bruce and Burckhardt received accounts as 

 existing- in Adel and the country south of Sennaar, it 

 may be added that Dr. Smith adduces the testimony of 

 Mr. Freeman respecting an animal by no means rare in 

 Makooa, north of the Mozambique Channel, which, 

 ovei'looking the absurdities and exaggeration of the de- 

 scription, he suspects to be a one-horned rhinoceros, and 

 probably that of which he heard, and which may extend 

 to the countries mentioned by Bruce and Burckhardt. 



Among the fossil relics of animals which at some 

 former period have tenanted this globe, and alter a quiet 

 possession^ generation succeeding generation, of their 

 pasture-lands, have become as it were blotted out of the 

 book of creation, those of the rhinoceros are extremely 

 abundant, little less so, if at all, than those of the fossil 

 elephant or mammoth, as widely distributed, and oc- 

 curi'ing in the same strata and the same localities. 

 Several species have been distinctly made out, among 

 which the most remarkable is that with a bony partition 

 between the nostrils, and suj)porting the nasal bones : it is 

 termed by Cuvier Rh. tichorJmius. Fig. 16 represents 

 the skull in two views : a, profile ; b, seen from below. 



It was of this species that Pallas in 1771 discovered 

 an entire fiuzen carcase buried in the sand on the banks 

 of the Wilouji or Viloui, which joins the Lena, in Si- 

 beria. Happily, therefore, we know the form and true 

 proportions of the living animal. The skin was smooth 

 and destitute of folds, and, like the common African rhi- 

 noceros, the animal had two horns. The feet had three 

 toes, as in all extant species, but the hoofs were lost. 

 Like the mammoth of Siberia, this animal was originally 

 covered with hair : in many parts of the skin this hair 

 still remained, especially over the feet, where it was very 

 abundant, measuring from one to three inches in length, 

 of a stiff quality, and of a dusky gray. The head was 

 invested with a similar clothing. The head and feet are 

 preserved in their natural state in the museum of St, 

 Petersburg. 



