116 THE RHINOCEROS. 



to remain in a wild ftate, while in Abyflinia he 

 is rendered domeftic, and is employed in car- 

 rying burdens *.' 



* M. deBufFon,' fays Mr Bruce, ' conjectured 

 that there were, in the interior parts of Africa, 

 rhinocerofes with two horns. This conjecture 

 is fully verified ; for all the rhinocerofes I faw 

 in Abyflinia had two horns. The firft, that is, 

 the one neareft the nofe, is of the common 

 form ; the fecond is fharp at the point, and 

 always fhorter than the firft. Both fpring at 

 the fame time ; but the firft grows more quick- 

 ly, and exceeds the other in fize, not only du- 

 ring the time of growth, but during the whole 

 life of the animal f.' 

 On the other hand, M. Allamand, a very able 

 naturalift, wrote to M. Daubenton a letter, dated 

 at Leydon, October 31. 1766, in the following 

 terms : 



' I recollect a remark of M. Parfons, in a 



* paffage quoted by M. de BufFon : He fufpeet- 



* ed that the rhinocerofes of Afia have but one 

 1 horn, and that thofe of the Cape of Good 

 e Hope have two. I fufpect the very oppofite : 

 1 The heads of the ihinocerofes which 1 received 



* from Bengal and other parts of India, had al- 

 ? ways double horns, and all thofe which came 



4 from 



* Defenfe des Recherches fur ]e<; Americains, p. 95. 

 f Note communicated by Mr Bruce to M. de BufFon, 



