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of Asia and Africa, where it is still seen in consi- 

 derable numbers, living in woody regions, and 

 feeding on the young shoots of trees. In some 

 parts of Africa is also found another species, 

 called the two-horned Rhinoceros, having two 

 horns on the nose, one behind the other : this 

 species, which is of equal size with the common 

 or single-horned Rhinoceros, is farther distin- 

 guished by having a much smoother skin than 

 that of the single-horned species, and which (in 

 the younger specimens particularly,) exhibits 

 hardly any of the roughnesses or folds which dis- 

 tinguish the common kind. The ancient Ro- 

 mans had undoubtedly seen a two-horned Rhi- 

 noceros exhibited ; since the circumstance is par- 

 ticularized in an Epigram of Martial, who, in 

 speaking of the combat between this animal and 

 a bear, says that it threw up or tossed the bear 

 with its double horn as easily as a bull would a 

 bag of wool. The animal also appears with a 

 double horn on a coin belonging to the reign 

 of Domitiun. It is well known that the cele- 

 brated Mr. Bruce has been much censured for 

 having figured in his travels the two-horned Rhi- 

 noceros as perfectly resembling in every other 



