THE RHINOCEROS. 



Food Manners, &c. 



voked, he becomes furious and dangerous; and is 

 even sometimes subject to paroxysms of fury, 

 which nothing can assuage. 



In the year J743, Dr. Parsons published an 

 account of a rhinoceros that was brought from 

 Bengal into Europe. He was only two years 

 old, and the expence of his food and journey 

 amounted to near 10001. sterling. He had every 

 day, at three meals, seven pounds of rice, mixed 

 with three pounds of sugar; besides hay and 

 green plants: he also drank large quantities of 

 water. In his disposition he was very peaceable, 

 readily suffering all parts of his body to be 

 touched. But when hungry, or irritated, he be- 

 came mischievous, and nothing would appease 

 him but food. When angry, he would jump up 

 against the walls of his apartment with great vio- 

 lence, and make repeated efforts to escape; utter- 

 ing a peculiar cry, somewhat between the grunt- 

 ing of a hog and the bellowing of a calf. He 

 was not at this time taller than a young cow. 



A rhinoceros, brought from Atcham, and ex- 

 hibited in 1748, at Paris, was very gentle, and 

 even caressing; he was fed principally on hay 

 and corn, and appeared particularly fond of sharp 

 or prickty plants, and the thorny branches of 

 trees. The attendants frequently gave him 

 branches that had very sharp and strong thorns 

 on them ; but he bent and broke them in his 

 mouth without seeming in the least incommoded. 

 Sometimes, indeed, they drew blood from his 

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