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land in the year 1790, and is supposed to have been 

 at tliat time about five years old. 



He exhibited no symptoms of a ferocious propen- 

 sity, and would even allow himself to be patted on 

 the back or sides by strangers. His docility was 

 about e(]ual to that of a tolerably tractable Pig : he 

 would obey the orders of his keeper, to walk about 

 the room, and exhibit himself to the numerous spec- 

 tators who came to visit him.- — This animal usually 

 ate every day twenty- eight pounds weight of clover, 

 besides about the same weight of ship biscuit, and a 

 vast quantity of greens. His food was invariably- 

 seized in his long, and projecting upper lip, and by 

 it conveyed into the mourh. He was allowed also 

 five pails of water twice or thrice a day. This was 

 put into a vessel that contained about tliree pails^ 

 which was filled up as the animal drank it ; and he 

 never ended his drauglit till the water was exhausted. 

 He was very fondofs'.vect wines, of which he would 

 often drink three or four bottles in the course of a 

 few hours. His voice was not much unlike the bleat- 

 ing of a Calf. It was most commonly exerted when 

 the animal observed any person with fruit or other 

 favorite food in liis hand, and in such cases it seems 

 to have been a mark ot his anxiety to have it given 

 him. During the severe illness which preceded his 

 ileath this noise, but in a more melancholy tone, 

 was almost constaiuly heard, occasioned doubtless 

 by the agonies that he underwent. 



In the month of October, 1792, as this Rhinoce- 

 ros was one day rising up vcrv suddenlv, he slipped 

 the jomt of one of his fore legs. This accident 



