ii4 THE RHINOCEROS. 



interrupted thicknefs of his fkin, that he alfo 

 lofes much lefs by perfpiration. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



I have feen a fecond rhinoceros, which was. 

 lately brought to the royal menagery. In the 

 month of September 1770, if the people who 

 conducted it can be credited, the animal was 

 only three months old. But, I am perfuaded, 

 that it was at leaft two or three years of age ; 

 for its body, including the head, was already 

 eight feet two inches long, five feet fix inches 

 high, and eight feet two inches in circumfe- 

 rence. A year afterward, its body was length- 

 ened feven inches ; fo that, on the 28th day of 

 Auguft 1 77 1, it was eight feet nine inches, in- 

 cluding the length of the head; five feet nine 

 inches high, and eight feet nine inches in cir- 

 cumference. On the 1 2th day of Auguft 1772, 

 the length of the body, comprehending the head, 

 was nine feet four inches, the height of the 

 crupper fix feet four inches, and that of the wi- 

 thers only five feet eleven inches. Its fkin had 

 the colour and appearance of an old elm tree, 

 fpotted in fome places with black and gray, and 

 in others doubled into deep furrows, which form- 

 ed a kind of fcales. It had only one horn, the 



colour 



