ANIMAL PROFILE—DRAWING. pat 
the Unicorn, in the shape of an Antelope, has 
been found in Africa, and now, in the In- 
dian mountains of Himalaya. To stories, 
that an Antelope with a single horn, placed 
after the manner of that of our pictured Uni- 
corn, is found rudely traced in a cave or 
caves of Southern Africa, it is sufficient to 
reply, that it consists entirely with the man- 
ner of such draftsmen as the Bushmen of the 
Cape of Good Hope, as it also would with 
the Indians of America, (rude, but accurately 
characteristic,) to represent the profile of an 
Antelope with no more than a single horn. 
Standing in profile, one horn would be held 
to hide the other; and why should the pro- 
file of an Antelope contain two horns, any 
more than the profile of a man, two ears 
or eyes? M. Cuvier has properly remarked, 
that many of the Egyptian representations 
of quadrupeds have only one leg before, and 
one behind; and adds, ‘ Why, then, should 
they have two horns?’ But the learned 
naturalist had no need of supposing a reli- 
gious rigour to demand that style of repre- 
sentation from the artist. It is the natu- 
ral style alone; it is what any child would 
