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T II E RHINOCERO S. 



views, before, behind, and in profile. \b> h:iS 

 likewise drawn the male organs of generation, 



the 



n. Tlie ht- .i«.!, particularly, has hardly any refembjance 

 to that ofthe Saint -Germain rhinoceros. We cannot, howe- 

 ver, entertain a doubt with regard to the accuracy ofDrParfons. 

 IIvj i eaions of fuch remarkable differences mull be fought for 

 in the age and fex ofthe two animals. That of Dr Parfoha 

 was drawn from a male rhinoceros, which exceeded not the 

 age of two years. That which I have here added, was drawn 

 from a picture oi the celebrated M Oudry, a molldiftinguifh- 

 ed animal painter. He painted from the life, and ofthe na- 

 tural fixe, the Saint Germain rhinoceros. wh ; ch was a female, 

 and at lead eif^it years old ; I fay at leaft eight years; for we 

 fee by an hofcriptioa written on the bottom of a wooden 



I ■it, entitled, A true portrait of a living rhinoceros c::<:'.:::icd at 

 t he fair of Saint- Germain in Paris* that this animal, when taken, 

 in 1741, in the province of Aifem belonging to the Mo- 

 gul, was three years old : And, eight lines lower, it is faid„ 

 that the animal was only one month old when fome Indians 

 entangled it with ropes, alter having flain the mother by their 

 fpears and darts. Hence it muft have been at leal eight 

 irs of age, and might be ten or twelve. This difference of 

 aee is probably the reafon of the remarkable differences be- 

 tween Dr Parfohs's, figure and that of M. Oudry, whofe pic- 

 tu:e, executed by the order ofthe King, was exhibited in the 

 > ter's hall, i fhaH only remaik, that M. Oudry has made 

 the horn of his rhinoceros too long ; for 1 examined the ani- 

 mal v I <■'■- attention, and I rind that this part is better 

 rep d in the wooden print. The horn of the prefent fi* 

 y U1 r this print, and the red is copied from 

 jVL Ou'dry's picture. The animal Which it r 

 v ; ;hed, about a year before, at Stouquart, in the dutchy of 

 Wittemberg, and its weight was at that time five hundred 

 pounds. It eat, according to the relation of Captain Dowe- 

 mot Wan-defmeer, who conducted it to Europe, fixty pounds 

 of I 1 twenty pounds of bread, every day. It was very 

 tame, and furprifingly agile, confidering the enormity of its 



« mafs, and its unwieldy afpecV Thefe remarks, like all thofe 



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