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and other fictitious forms. Now, from the badness of his figure. Dr. P. was induced 

 to believe that that great man never saw the animal ; for he certainly could not 

 have been so mistaken in the performance. Many years after him, one Hen- 

 drik Hondius published in Holland an exact copy of Durer's print, counterfeit- 

 ing the date and mark. 



Bontius says he has often seen these animals in the woods and stables abroad ; 

 and values himself for having exhibited a figure without the decorations that 

 Albert Durer put upon his ; and yet, instead of the hoofs which are proper to 

 the animal, he has drawn a paw not unlike that of a dog, only something bulky. 



The figure given by Chardin, in his Voyages, has some truth, as to the folds 

 or plicae in the skin of the rhinoceros ; and likewise as to the feet : but in other 

 respects it is not like the animal. There is also a little truth in the figures of 

 Camerarius, in his emblems taken from animals ; but far from a thorough re- 

 presentation of the creature : and, in short, the other originals, as that taken 

 from the rhinoceros in l685, that published by Carwitham in 1739, and, to 

 look back to the Roman times, those in the pavement of Prseneste, and Do- 

 mitian's medals, are very inaccurate, but have none of Albert Durer's deco- 

 rations. 



When the rhinoceros arrived here in 1739, Dr. Douglas went frequently to 

 see him, for the purpose of correcting the opinions respecting him ; and on 

 June 24, of this year, exhibited before the Royal Society a drawing, with a 

 collection of figures of that creature, taken from several authors, who had 

 written of him before. He mentioned also his dimensions ; and on the 28th 

 of the same month, he produced a collection of horns, with some account of 

 them, but proceeded no further. Therefore, as another occasion might not 

 offer in many years. Dr. P. gives the following account of the male rhinoceros 

 shown in Eagle-street near Red Lion-square, in 1739, and the drawings an- 

 nexed to it. In this account, he had no regard to those of other authors, but 

 barely described him as he often saw him both then and afterwards. 



The drawings are a side, fore, and back view of the animal fore-shortened : 

 the figures of 2 single horns ; and a double one or two sticking to the same 

 piece of skin ; the penis ; the tail of an old rhinoceros ; and an upper and under 

 view of one of the feet. 



He was fed here with rice, sugar, and hay : of the first he ate 7 pounds 

 mixed with 3 of sugar every day, divided into 3 meals ; and about a truss of hay 

 in a week, besides greens of different kinds, which were often brought to him, 

 and of which he seemed fonder than of his dry victuals ; and drank large quan- 

 tities of water at a time, being then, it seems, 2 years old. 



He appeared very peaceable in his temper, suffering himself to be handled in 



