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or shyness, but seemed constantly intent upon getting something to eat. 
Tt fed upon hay, potatoes, and grain, and so greedy was its appetite, that 
ho‘vjing came amiss. Another recently arrived at Boston, and died in the 
harbor. It was about a third larger than the one above mentioned. Its 
skeleton, beautifully prepared, is now jn the Cabinet of the Boston Society 
of Natural History. . 
We have seen that this animal has a good ear; it is also affirmed, that 
he has the sense of smelling in perfection ; but it is pretended he has nota 
good eye, and sees only before him. His eyes are so small, and placed 
so low, and so obliquely, they have so little vivacity and motion, that this 
fact needs no other confirmation. His voice, when he is calm, resembles 
the grunting of a hog; and when he is angry, his sharp cries are heard at 
a great distance. Though he lives upon vegetables, he does not ruminate ; 
thus, it is probable, that, like the elephant, he has but one stomach, and 
very large bowels, which supply the office of the paunch. His consumption, 
though very great, is not comparable to that of the elephant; and it ap-« 
pears, by the thickness of his skin, that he loses less than the elephant 
his perspiration. 
Two species of the two horned rhinoceros are found in South Africa. 
The following figure was drawn from life, by Mr Melville, and conveys an 
accurate representation of the species, which abounds most in the Bechuana 
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country. The horn of the female is, however, much longer and inore 
slender than that of the male, being three and a half feet long. Being a 
strong, ponderous, and elastic substance, it is much prized by the natives, 
for handles to their battle-axes. The secondary horn is, in many instances, 
so smal] as to be scarcely perceptible at a little distance. 
