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THE RHINOCEROS. 



TH E rhinoceros is iifually twelve feet, from the nofe to the tail; 

 fix to feven feet high; the circumference of its body is nearly- 

 equal to its length. Has a horn, growing from the fnour, fometimes 

 three feet and an half long; without this, that part would refemble the 

 head of a hog; the upper lip is much longer in proportion, ends in a 

 point, is very pliable, ferves to colledt its food, and deliver it into the 

 mouth: ears large, erecb, and pointed; eyes (mail and piercing; (kin 

 naked, rough, knotty, and lying upon the body in folds ; of a dirty 

 brown colour; Co thick as to turn the edge of a fcymiter, and to refill a 

 mufquet ball: tht belly hangs low; the legs are (hort, ftrong and thick, 

 and the hoofs divided into three parts, each pointing forward. 



Native of Afia and Africa, and found in thofc extcnfivc forefts fre- 

 quented by the elephant and the lion. Subiifts entirely on vegetable 

 food ; is peaceful and harmlefs : though it never provok'-rs the combat, 

 difdains to fly ; and, every way fitted for war, refts content in fccurity. Is 

 particularly fond of the prickly branches of trees, and feeds on fuch thorny 

 fhrubs as would be dangerous to other animals, either to gather or to 

 fwallow. Is fometimes taken in pit- falls, covered with green branches, 

 laid in paths which the rhinoceros makes in going from the foreft to the 

 Tiver O^de. 



Some found in Africa have a double horn, one growing above the 

 other. This weapon is one of the ftrongeft, and moft dangerous, that 

 nature furnifhes to any animal : is entirely folid, formed of the hardeft 

 bony fubftance, growing from the upper maxillary bone, by fo flrong an 

 apophyfe, as feemingly to make but one with it. 



GIRAFFE, OR C A M E L O P A R D A L I S. 



IT S head fomewhat refemhles a deer, with two round horns (which 

 perhaps it Iheds), a foot long, blunt, thick, and tufted with hair; 

 its neck rcfembles a horfe; its legs and feet, a deer; forelegs much 

 ^on^er than the hinder. Its tail refcniblcs a horfe, but has ids hair, 



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