THEORY OF THE EARTH. 61 



the differences which distinguish the elephants of 

 Africa from those of Asia*. 



They knew the two-horned Rhinoceros, which 

 has never been seen alive in 'modern Europe. 

 Doraitian exhibited it at Rome, and had it 

 stamped on his medals, which have been very 

 well described by Pausanias. 



The one-horned Rhinoceros, distant as was its 

 country, was equally known to them. Pompey 

 shewed one at Rome ; and Strabo has accurately 

 described another which he saw at Alexandriaf. 



The Rhinoceros of Sumatra described by Mr 

 Bell ; and that of Java, discovered and sent home 

 by Messrs Duvaucel and Diard, do not appear to 

 inhabit the continent. Hence, it is not surpris- 

 ing, that the ancients should have been ignorant 

 of them ; besides, they probably would not have 

 distinguished them from the others. 



The Hippopotamus has not been so well de- 

 scribed as the preceding animals ; yet very exact 

 representations of it have been left by the Ro- 

 mans in their monuments relative to Egypt, such 

 as the statue of the Nile, the Palestrine pave- 



* This is more particularly noticed in the Chapter on 

 Elephants in the first volume of Professor Cuvier-'s Recher- 

 ches. 



t See the history of the Rhinoceros in the first part of 

 the second volume of Professor Cuvier's Recherchts. 



