TA UNICORN GNLY THE LATIN 
of the Elephant and Rhinoceros, and there 
is nothing extraordinary, therefore, in the 
proposition, that a park or menagerie of the 
sovereign of the country should contain 
many specimens, either wild or tame. But 
I value the passage in Webbe still more, 
because it assists in showing, that in the 
English of the sixteenth century, the era of 
the translation of the Bible, it was usual 
to call by the name of Unicorn, the very 
animal which now, with more modern and 
Greek predilections, we denominate Rhinoce- 
ros. But the horn of the Rhinoceros is upon 
his nose, and not upon his forehead; and 
that is the meaning of the name R/znoceros, 
and of the Hebrew ‘Reem.’ The Greek 
translation of the word Unicorn would be 
Monoceros. 
** Before we part with the Rhinoceros, 
let me remark, that the animal was as fa- 
miliar to the thoughts, at least, of the He- 
brews, as it was foreign to those of the 
Greeks ; and thence an incessant subject of 
Hebrew metaphor. ‘The Rhinoceros has the 
thickness of his bony hide for his passive de- 
fence, but the horn upon his nose for his 
