THE RHINOCEROS. 97 



had published figures of him were detected by 

 inspection of the animals which arrived in Lon- 

 don in the years 1739 and 1741. The figure 

 given by Albert Durer was the firit, and the lead 

 conformable to Nature ; yet it was copied by 

 moft riaturalifts, fome of whom loaded it with pre- 

 pofterous drapery and foreign ornaments. That 

 of Bontius is more fimple and correct ; but the 

 inferior part of the legs is improperly reprefent- 

 ed. That of Chardin, en the contrary, gives 

 a pretty good idea of the feet, and the folds of 

 thefkin; but, in other refpe&s, it has no re- 

 femblance to the animal. That of Camerarius 

 is no better; neither is that drawn from the rhi- 

 noceros exhibited at London in the year i65c, 

 and which was publifhed by Carwitham in the 

 1739. In fine, the figures on the ancient pave- 

 ment of Praenefte, and on Domitian's medals, 

 are extremely imperfect ; but they have the me- 

 rit of not being deformed by the imaginary or- 

 naments reprefented in the figure drawn by Al- 

 bert Durer. Dr Parfons has taken the trouble of 

 drawing this animal himfelf * in three different 

 Vol. VI. G views, 



* One of our learned philofophers, M. de Mours, has made 

 ibme remarks on this fubjeft, which muft not be omitted. « The 

 '« figure,' fays he, « of the rhinoceros which Dr Parfons has ad- 



* ded to his Memoir, and which he drew from the life, is fo dif* 



* ferent from that engraved at Paris in the year 1 749, from a 

 « rhinoceros exhibited at the fair of Saint Germain, that it is 

 « difficult to recognife them to be the fame animal. That of 



* Dr Parfons is Ihorter, and the folds of the fkin are fewer in 



* number, left marked, and fome of. them placed in a different 



« poutien, 



