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the size of a horse of mature age, possesses a mane 

 and reddish-yellow hair, and that it excels in swiftness 

 through the excellence of its feet and of its whole body. 



Like the elephant it has inarticulate feet, and it has 

 a boar's tail ; one black horn projects between the eye- 

 brows, not awkwardly, but with a certain natural twist, 

 and terminating in a sharp point." 



Guillim, who wrote on heraldry in 1610, gives, in his 

 Illustrations, indifferently the tail of this animal, as horse 

 or ass ; and, as might be expected from one of his 

 craft, magnifies the Unicorn exceedingly : " The Unicorn 

 hath his Name of his one Horn on his Forehead. There 

 is another Beast of a huge Strength and Greatness, which 

 hath but one Horn, but that is growing on his Snout, 

 whence he is called Rinoceros, and both are named 

 Monoceros, or One horned. It hath been much ques- 

 tioned among Naturalists, which it is that is properly 



called the Unicorn : And some hath made Doubt whether 



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