THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 303 



mal better than any that has hitherto been 

 drawn, or rather, it is the only figure we have 

 of it; for, in all the others, the hippopotamus is 

 not diftinguifhable, if we except that to be found 

 in a Dutch book, concerning the Leviathan of 

 Holy Writ, which was copied from the fame 

 model ; but the proportions of the animal are 

 not accurately obferved. 



It is unneceffary to add a defcription of this 

 enormous animal, having no additions to what 

 has been faid of it by M. de Buffon and M. 

 Daubenton. 



[As the figure of the young hippopotamus in 

 the cabinet of the Prince of Conde, differs from 

 that which M. Allamand had engraved from the 

 fluffed fkin in the Leyden cabinet, and as it has 

 a greater refemblance to a new figure given by 

 Dr Klockner from another fkin in the Prince of 

 Orange's cabinet, I have here preferred the 

 latter ; and I fhall add fome remarks of the 

 fame author, which were tranflated from the 

 Dutch.] 



Addition to M. de Buffon s Hijlory of the Hippo- 

 potamus^ by Dr Klockner of Amjlerdanu 



I am furprifed that M. de Buffon takes no 

 notice of a paffage in Diodorus Siculus, concern- 

 ing the hippopotamus, efpecially as this ancient 



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