13 1 THE TWO-HORNED RIIIN'OCEKaS. 



outlines being marked by small white strokes *. 

 Many of the Indian princes drink out of cups made 

 of this horn ; imagining, that when these hold 

 any poisonous draught, the liquor will ferment 

 till it runs quite over the top. Goblets made of the 

 horns of tlie young, arc esteemed the most valuable. 

 Professor Thunbcrg, when at the Cape, tried these 

 horns, both wrought into goblets and unwroughty 

 both old and young horns, with several sorts of 

 poison, weak as well as strong, but did not ob- 

 serve the least motion or effervescence ; when, how- 

 ever, a solution of corrosive sublimate was poured into^ 

 one of them, there arose indeed a few bubbles, 

 which were produced by the air that had been in- 

 closed in the pores of the horn, and was now disen- 

 gaged from it -f. Martial informs us, that the Ro- 

 man ladies of fashion used these horns in the baths,, 

 to hold their esscncc-bottlcs and oils :};.. The Ja- 

 vanese make shields of the skin. 



The Single-horned Rhinoceros h a native of seve- 

 ral parts of India ; as well as of the isknds of Ceylon, 

 Java, and Sumatra. It is also found in Ethiopia. — 

 The female produces only one young one at a birth. 



THE TWO-Hor.XED RHINOCEROS §. 



This species differs from the last, principally in 

 the appearance of its skin ; which, instead of vast 

 and regularly marked armour- like folds, has merely 



* Grose, i. '27,5. f 'riiunlici;;, i. --'46. X I-i'"- ^i^- Ep- •-'^. 

 § Synonyms. — Rhinoceros i}iconii>. Linn.-'—-'Sh'.iu't, Ur/i. .7iji>i. 

 fl. 6l. — Bcu\ u.a(i. 1.3(3. 



