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than in the African, Indian, or Sumatran Rhinoceros ; and 

 the fore part of the shaft, above the joint for the patella, 

 or knee-pan, is more excavated than in the other fossil 

 species found in Britain, viz., the Rhinoceros leptorhinus. 



Although the remains of the great tichorhine Rhino- 

 ceros have not been found in such abundance in the caves, 

 the unstratified drift, and the post-pliocene fresh-water 

 deposits of Britain, as those of its more gigantic con- 

 temporary the Mammoth, the two-horned Pachyderm 

 seems to have been as extensively distributed over the land 

 which now constitutes our island. The works of con- 

 tinental palaeontologists demonstrate that this Rhinoceros 

 was similarly associated with the Mammoth in the more 

 recent deposits of France, Germany, and Italy.* 



But the most abundant as well as the best preserved 

 specimens of the tichorhine Rhinoceros have been dis- 

 covered in the northern latitudes of Asia, which appear 

 to have been the regions most frequented by it ; and 

 where the same evidence has been obtained of its special 

 adaptation to colder climates than those inhabited by ex- 

 isting Rhinoceroses, as that which has been previously 

 detailed in reference to the Mammoth. 



The very remarkable discovery of the extinct Rhino- 

 ceros preserved in ice was made nearly twenty years 

 before the analogous one of the frozen Mammoth, noticed 

 in a foregoing section ;-f- and is narrated by Pallas in the 

 4th volume of his ' Voyages dans TAsie Septentrionale," 

 (4to., 1793, pp. 130132), as follows: 



" I ought here to mention an interesting discovery, 



* Cuvier showed that the famous fossil Morse of Monti, discovered at Mont 

 Blancano, near Bologna, was the lower jaw of the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, (torn. cit. 

 p. 73.) 



t Ante, p. 263. 



