AMPHIBIOUS HIPPOPOTAMI*. 447 



diles, and one Hippoimtamtu. 



They \\cre exhibited in a temporary lake prepared 

 .Augustus is aUo said to have 

 exhibited 01 Mis triumph o\c r ( 



The ar,im:;l. hov M tar noticed 



be<n properly described by the ancients; 

 ueitlier Aristotle nor Pliny giving accurate ac- 

 counts of it; nor was it till ai>out the beginning 

 of the seventeenth century tliat it could be said 

 to be justly described. At that period Xerenghi, 

 an Italian Mirgcon, printed at Naples a tolerably 

 accurate description, accompanied i ;ure 



from the dried skin. The same figure is also re- 

 d in Aldrovandus, ,\c. It is but lately that 

 tlie full history of the animal has bet n kimun, 

 and that accurate and sati- illation* 



of i; have been published; and this has been 

 chiefly owing to the laudable and /calmis dibits 

 of Dr. Sparmann, Colonel Gordon, Mr. Mas- 

 son, and others in examining the living an 

 in its native regions, and by their observations 

 contributing to complete the descriptions of na- 

 turalists. 



The largest female Hippopotamus killed by Co- 

 lonel Gordon was about ele\ en feet long, and the 

 hich always exceeds the female in 

 ..nit ele\en fed eight inches. Mr. Bruce, 

 however, >peaks of Hippopotami in the lake Tzatut 



ban twenty feet long. 



The Hippopotamus has only a single stomach, 

 and does nut ruminate: the stomach, however, 



