166 THE INDIAN RHINOCEROS. 



rough base above an inch high, is black and 

 smooth at the top, like those of the ox-kind, but 

 rugged downwards ; the determination of its 

 growth is backwards, instead of straight up ; 

 which is apparent, as well in the different horns 

 of old Rhinoceroses, as in this of oar present 

 subject; for the distance from the base to the 

 apex of this, backward, is not within a third part 

 so long as that before, and it has a curved direc- 

 tion ; and, considering the proportion of this 

 animal's size to its horn, we may justly imagine, 

 that the creature which bore any one of those 

 great ones, must have been a stupendous animal 

 in size and strength; and, indeed, it were no 

 wonder, if such were untractable at any rate. 



" The sides of his under jaw are wide asunder, 

 slanting outward to the lower edge; and back- 

 ward to the neck, the edges turn outward ; from 

 this structure his head naturally looks large. 

 The part that reaches from the fore part of the 

 horn towards the upper lip, may be called the 

 nose, being very bulky, and having a kind of 

 circular sweep downward towards the nostrils : 

 on all this part he has a great number of rugae 

 running across the front of it, and advancing on 

 each side towards his eyes. The nostrils are 

 situated very low, in the same direction with the 

 rictus oris, and not above an inch from it. If we 

 look at him in a fore view, the whole nose, frore 



