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work on Mammalia has given us every particular of its 

 natural history and description. There is no reason to sup- 

 pose that the Asiatic species differs in its natural habits 

 from its African congener ; but as our notice of the latter 

 is principally from Mr. Burchell, whose observations were 

 made on the animal in its wild and natural state, we prefer 

 adopting M. Cuvier's account of his specimen in a captive 

 condition, to repeating the older -notices of Parsons, Ed- 

 wards, and Thomas. 



This Rhinoceros was young, and was habitually very 

 gentle, obedient to its keeper, and sensible of his attentions 

 and caresses. He was nevertheless occasionally seized with 

 paroxysms of violence, during which it seemed quite neces- 

 sary to keep out of his reach : the cause of this occasional 

 violence could not be discovered, unless it were to be traced 

 to a blind impulse or desire of that liberty which he had 

 never enjoyed, and which excited in him an effort to break 

 his chains, and to burst from the unnatural captivity in 

 which he was detained. Bread or fruit, however, soon 

 calmed him. He knew those who were most liberal of food 

 to him ; as soon as he saw them, he stretched out toward 

 them his long upper lip, opened his mouth and put out his 

 tongue. The cage in which he was kept being very small, 

 he had little opportunity of displaying the extent of his 

 mental faculties, and his keeper took no other pains than 

 to induce him to forget or misconceive his own strength and 

 to obey; but judging by the attention he bestowed on every- 

 thing passing about him, and by the distinction he was able 

 to make of persons especially, it might be fairly presumed 

 that his intelligence would have acquired a much greater 

 developement, under more favourable circumstances; but 

 his immense power, and the apprehensions constantly en- 

 tertained, that in one of his paroxysms he might break his 

 prison, procured him at all times a very gentle treatment. 

 Nothing was required of him without reward ; and the slight 



