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Disinterring a rhinoceros. 



sity of ordering it to be immediately buried. 

 This was accordingly done, on Soutb Sea Com- 

 mon. But it was privately dug up about a 

 fortnight afterwards, for the purpose of preserv- 

 ing its skin, and some of the most valuable of the 

 bones. The persons present declared, that the 

 stench was so powerful, that it was plainly per- 

 ceptible at the distance of more than half a mile; 

 and it was with the greatest difficulty they could 

 proceed in their operations. The skin of this 

 animal is now stuffed, and deposited in one of 

 the exhibition rooms. 



The other rhinoceros that was at Exeter 

 'Change was considerably smaller than this. It 

 was brought over about the year 1799, and lived 

 not more than twelve months afterwards. Mr. 

 Pidcock sold it to an agent of the emperor of 

 Germany ; but it died in a stable-yard in Brury- 

 Lane, about two months afterwards. 



DOUBLE-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 



THIS species of the rhinoceros differs from 

 the last in the appearance of its skin ; which, in- 

 stead of vast and regularly marked folds, resem- 

 bling armour, has merely a slight wrinkle across 

 the shoulders and on the hinder parts, with a few 

 fainter wrinkles on the sides ; so that, in compa- 

 rison with the common rhinoceros, it appears 

 almost smooth. The principal distinction, how- 



