MAMMALIA. BRUT A. Rhinoceros. 113 



Inhabits America. — Is about the fize of an ordinary cat, and weighs feven pounds : Was fed on 

 ilefh and milk, and refufed grain or fruits. 



IX. RHINOCEROS.— 9. RHINOCEROS. 36. 



Has a folid, perliftant, conical horn, fituated on the nofe, and 

 not adhering to the bone. 



l *6* I. One- horned Rhinoceros. — -J. Rhinoceros unicornis, 1. 



Has only one horn. 



Gefn. quad. 842. Raj. quad. 122. Klein, quad. 26. Grew, muf. 29. Worm. muf. 336. BrhT. 

 quad. 78. Parfons, in phil. tranf. xlii. 523. Edw. av. tab. 221. f. 2. Plin. 1. viii. c. 20. Knorr, 

 delic. ii. 1 10. t. K. X. Albin. tab. mufc. 4. 8. Schreber, ii. 44. tab. lxxviii. Br. muf. Alhm. muf. 

 Lever, muf. Sm. Buff", vi. 92. pi. clxiv. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 67. 



Inhabits between and near the Tropics, in marfhy places, being found in Bengal, Siarn, Cochin- 

 China, Quangfi in China, in the iflands of Java and Sumatra, and in Africa. — This animal is men- 

 tioned in the book of Job under the name of Reem, and was not unfrequently exhibited in the pu- 

 blic fights of animals in the Roman games; yet was unknown in Europe during a long feries of years, 

 no fpecimens having been feen before the fixteenth century. It lives on thorns and other fpinous 

 plants, and is fond of wallowing in the mire •, may be tamed in fome degree, and becomes mild, un- 

 lefs when provoked ; but, when enraged, will even overturn trees with its violence. The male voids 

 his urine and copulates backwards : The fight of this animal is weak, but its hearing, and fenfe of 

 fmelling, are remarkably acute : In ftature and magnitude of body, except that the legs are fhorter, 

 this animal equals the elephant, but falls vaftly behind in fagacity and docility : In form, in manners, 

 and in its grunting voice, it comes nearer to the Hog genus, efpecially the Ethiopian fpecies. The 

 ikin is fo hard that it refills the efFecl: of arrows, fwords, or even of mufkct balls, which rebound 

 from it without doing injury ; it is entirely naked, except the tail and ears ; it is divided by feveral 

 folds, or tran'fverfe' plaits, which are very confpicuous and regular ill their fituation ; 1 ft, behind the 

 head ; 2d, on the fhoulders ; 3d, from the back down the loins, before the thighs, and along the 

 belly •, 4th, crofs the thighs : Thefe allow of motion to the fkin, which is hard and inflexible like a 

 fhell or coat of armour ; the infide of the plaits being compofed of a very foft pliable fkin ; the 

 fkin on the belly is foft, like that within the plaits ; the flefh is coarfe, fpongy, and hardly eatable ; 

 the tongue is foft and frnooth ; the horn is fibrous in its texture, furrounded with coarfe hair at the 

 root, is conical, and tapers to a fharp point, and is fometimes three feet long: In adults there are no 

 fore-teeth, but, in young animals, a few folitary ftraggling cutting teeth are found, which ftand at 

 confiderable diftances from each other ; the feet have each three hoofs, which are placed on the 

 fore part; the tail is fmall, narrowing towards the point, and only reaches to about the middle of the 

 hind legs. 



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