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backward from the base ; a very short space above this 

 horn, is situated the second or upper horn, not half the 

 length of the former, but nearly as big at the base, conical 

 in shape, and perfectly straight, and placed nearly above 

 the eyes, in a concavity described from the upper edge of the 

 base of the lower horn to the top of the head. The horns 

 being placed upon, but not emanating from the bone of the 

 nose, are partially moveable, more so than in the Asiatic 

 species, arising probably from a greater smoothness of the 

 bone in question in this. No hair, appears upon the animal 

 except at the edge of the ears, and extremity of the tail. 



The first view of this beast suggests the idea of an enor- 

 mous hog, to which besides, in its general form, it bears 

 some outward resemblance, in the shape of the skull, the 

 smallness of the eyes, and the proportionate size of its 

 ears; but in its shapeless clumsy legs and feet, it more re- 

 sembles the Hippopotamus and Elephant. It is in fact in 

 many less obvious particulars closely allied to all these. 



The dimensions of one measured by Mr. Burchell, were 

 in length over the forehead and along the back from the ex- 

 tremity of the nose to the insertion of the tail, eleven feet 

 and two inches, but in a direct line not more than nine feet 

 three inches; the tail, which at its extremity was compla- 

 nated or flattened vertically, measured twenty inches, and 

 the circumference of the largest part of the body eight feet 

 four inches. 



The senses, and a partial account of the character of this 

 species, were described and given to Mr. Burchell by a na- 

 tive South African of experience, than whom no one can 

 be better enabled to give us information on the subject : 

 we shall therefore insert his account. The outline of this 

 account accords with Bruce's interesting description of this 

 animal : — 



" Their smell is so keen and nice that they know, even 

 at a great distance, whether any man be coming towards 



