io2 THE RHINOCEROS, 



tube, in the form of a funnel cut and bordered 

 fame what like a flower de luce*, and confli- 

 tutes the glans and extremity of the penis. 

 This anomalous glans is of a paler flefli-colour 

 ' than the fecond prepuce. In the moft vigorous 

 erection, the penis extends not ab<ve eight in- 

 ches out of the body; and it is eafily procured 

 by rubbing the animal with a handful of ftraW 

 when he lies at his cafe. The direction of this 

 organ is not ftraijrht, but bended backward. 

 Hence he throws cut his urine behind; and, 

 from this circumdance, it may be inferred, that 

 the male covers not the female, but that they u- 

 nite with their cruppers to each other. The fe- 

 male organs are fituated like thofe of the cow, 

 and fhe exactly refembles the male in figure and 

 groflhefs of body. The fkin is fo thick and im- 

 penetrable, that, when a man lays hold of any 

 of the folds, he would imagine he is touching a 

 wooden plank of half an inch thick. When 

 tanned, Dr Grew remarks, it is exceffively hard, 

 and thicker than the hide of any other terreftri- 

 al animal. It is every where covered more or 

 lefs with incruftatidns in the form of galls or 

 tuberofities, which are pretty fmali on the top 

 of the neck and back, but become larger on the 

 fides. The largeft are on the moulders and 

 crupper, and are ftill pretty large on the thighs and 

 legs, upon which they are fpread all round, and 

 even on the feet. But, between the folds, the 



fkin 



* Phil. Tranf. No. 470. pi. ill. Edwards's Gleanings, 



