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These huge creatures seem to possess the charac- 

 teristics of their Order in the highest degree, espe- 

 cially that which confers its name ; for the skin is 

 enormously thick and hard, destitute of hair, and, 

 in the one-horned division, arranged in deep doubl- 

 ings or folds around the neck, shoulders, and thighs. 

 The two-horned species, especially those of Africa, 

 are almost wholly free from these folds ; these appear 

 to manifest a malevolence and ferocity to which the 

 Eastern kinds are strangers. The upper lip is elon- 

 gated into a protrusive and prehensile muzzle, used 

 to collect the branches and twigs of trees ; but one 

 species (R. Simus), which feeds only on grass, wants 

 this protrusion, the muzzle being flat, like that of 

 an ox. The horns are formidable weapons, not from 

 their sharpness, but from the resistless impetus of 

 the enraged animal : it is said that the animal has 

 the power of moving one or both, and of making 

 them clatter by striking each other ; but this, though 

 not impossible, seems to want confirmation. Six 

 species are known, R. Indicus, R. Javanus, and R. 

 Sumatranus, belonging to Asia, the last being the 

 connecting link with the African R. JBicornis, R. 

 Simus, and R. Keitloa, which are all two-horned. 

 More than a hundred years ago an Indian Rhino- 

 ceros was exhibited in London, of which an account 

 was given by Dr. Parsons ; several have since, at 

 different times, reached Europe, all, we believe of 

 the same species, and one is at present, (1842,) in 

 the Gardens at the Regent's Park. It appears inert, 

 but mild and inoffensive. Of the Javanese species 



