io$ THE RHINOCEROS, 



young rhinoceros exceeds not the fize of a large 

 dog*. When recently brought iorrh, it has no 

 hornt, though the rudiments of it appear in 

 the foetus. At the age of two years, the horn 

 exceeds not an inch in length J, and, at the age 

 of fix, it is from nine to ten inches long || : Now, 

 as fome of thtfj horns are known to be near 

 four feet in length, it appears that *"hey continue 

 to grow during the half, or perhaps during the 

 whole of the animal's life, which mud be con- 

 fidently long, lince the rhinoceros defcribed by 

 Dr Parions had only acquired about one half of 

 its heignt at the age of two years ; from which 

 we may conclude, that this animal, like man, 

 {houid iive feventy or eighty years. 



Without the capacity of becoming ufeful, like 

 the elephant, the rhinoceros is equally hunful 

 by his voracity, and particularly by the great 

 wafte he makes in the cultivated fields. He is 

 of no ufe till he is (lain. His flefh is reckoned 



excellent 



* We have feen a young rhinoceros which was not larger 

 than a dog. It followed its mailer every where, and drank 

 the milk of the buffalo. But it lived only three weeks. The 

 teeth were beginning to appear; Voyage de la Compagnie dee 

 lades de Hollande, to?n. 7. />• 483. 



f In two young rhinocerofes, nothing but a prominence 

 was obferved on the place where the horns were to arife, 

 though the animals were then as large as an ox. But their 

 legs are very fhort efpecially thofe before, which are fhorter 

 than the hind legs; Voyage de Pietro della Vahe, tow. 4. p. 245. 



% Phil. Tranf. No. 470. 



I Id. ibid. 



