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APPENIDIX, 



THE following information, respecting the manners of some 

 of the Quadrupeds, that, within the last ten or twelve 

 years, have been brought into England, was obtained too 

 late to admit of its being incorporated into the body of the 

 work. Rather, however, than it should be lost to the 

 readerj I have inserted it here byway of Appendix. Ifc 

 principally relates to such as have been deposited in the Ex- 

 hibition rooms at Exeter 'Change, and in the menagerie at 

 the Tower of Lc'iidon. 



THE SINGLE-HOrvNED RHINOCEROS*". 



THE only two animals of this species that have 

 been brought into England during the last half cen- 

 tury, were both purchased for the exhibition rooms 

 at Exeter 'Change. One of them, of which the skin 

 is still preserved, came from Laknaor, in the East 

 Indies, and was brought over in the Melville Castle, 

 East Indiaman, as. a present to Mr. Dundas. This 

 gentleman, not wishing to have the trouble of kecp-^ 

 ing him, gave the animal away. Not long after- 

 wards he was purchased by Mr. Pidcock of Exeter 

 'Change^ for the sum of /OOl. He arrived in Eng- 



* Ste vol. i. p. 110. 

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