371 



pendent of the age of the animal. Hence, if any of the fossil rhino- 

 ceroses had incisive teeth, it appears that they must have existed in thd 

 lower jaw only, and have also differed in size, and probably in form, from 

 those of the living rhinoceroses. 



It appears that two incisive teeth of the rhinoceros are in the cabinet of 

 the celebrated anatomist Soemmereng, which, it is said, were dug out of 

 the earth in the neighbourhood of Mentz ; one of which has been figured 

 by Merck, and another by M. Adrien Camper. Supposing, M. Cuvier 

 observes, that these teeth are really fossil, they prove nothing contrary 

 to what has been assumed above. This circumstance can only show, 

 that there is also, among the fossil species, one which is different from 

 that which has been hitherto found. The grinder teeth of the fossil 

 species appear to agree precisely with those of the living species. 



The fossil remains of the rhinoceros have been generally found in the 

 same countries where the remains of elephants have been found ; but 

 they do not appear to have so generally excited attention ; and perhaps 

 but few of those who discovered them were able to determine to what 

 animal they belonged. Thus a tooth of this animal is described by 

 Grew merely as the tooth of a terrestrial animal ; and the remains of 

 this animal, found in the neighbourhood of Canterbury, were supposed 

 to have belonged to the hippopotamus. 



In Hartzberg, in the principality of Grubenhagen ; Quedlimbourg, 

 Darmstadt, the borders of the Rhine, Mentz, Strasbourg, the neigh- 

 bourhood of Cologne, Westphalia, numerous parts of France, and in 

 several parts of Great Britain, have the remains of the rhinoceros been 

 found. In Siberia these remains have been found in considerable quantities. 

 Pallas, whose researches have been particularly directed to this part of 

 the world, made the astonishing discovery of a complete rhinoceros, still 

 covered by its skin, and buried in the sand on the borders of the river 

 Wiluji. 



From several fragments of bones which I met with in the Essex bank, 



