352 RHINOCEROS. 



courts) . ' The eyelids and eyelashes even had not entirely 

 fallen into decay. I saw a substance in the cavity of the 

 skull ; and here and there, beneath the skin, were the re- 

 mains of the putrified flesh. I remarked on the feet the 

 very obvious remains of the tendons and cartilages, where 

 the skin was wanting. The head had lost its horn,* and 

 the feet their hoofs. The situation of the horn, the fold 

 of integument which surrounded it, and the separation "* 

 (of the toes ?) f ' which existed in the fore-feet and hind- 

 feet are certain proofs of the animal being a Rhinoceros ? 

 I have given an account of this singular discovery in the 

 Memoirs of the Academy of Petersburg, and refer my 

 readers to that work to save repetition. They will there 

 see the reasons in proof that a Rhinoceros has been able 

 to penetrate near the Lena in high northern latitudes, and 

 the circumstances that have led to the discovery in Siberia 

 of the remains of so many strange animals." 



In this Memoir, Pallas specifies the short hairs, strongly 

 implanted in pores of the skin covering the vertex, and 

 growing in tufts (fasciculatim nascentes) from the sides 

 of the mandibular region, of rigid texture and cinereous 

 grey colour, with here and there a black hair longer and 

 stiffer than the rest. The hairs adhered to many parts 

 of the skin of the legs, from one to three lines long, of a 

 dirty cinereous colour. So much hair as grew from the 

 parts of the frozen Rhinoceros observed by Pallas, he never 



* " La tete etoit degarnie de sa corne," are the words of the French translator 

 and editor Peyronie ; but Pallas, in his Memoir, expressly mentions the two horns : 

 " Cornua cum capite adlata non fuerunt, prius forte abrupta et a flumine vel trans- 

 euntibus gentilibus, qui venationi operam navant, ablata. Apparent autem cornu 

 nasalis pariter atque/rorctafts evidentissima vestigia." Novi Comment. Petropol., 

 torn. xvii. p. 588. 



t In the Memoir, " De Reliquiis animalium exoticorum," Pallas, speaking of 

 the feet, says, " In quibus non solum divisura ungularum, Rhinocerotis character- 

 istica, sed corium pariter," &c. 



