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him, and on his fide, in all directions. Others that are more 

 pliable, greener, or fuller of fap, are bent back bv his 

 weight, and the velocity of his motions ; and, after he lias 

 parted, reftoring themfelves like a green branch to then- na- 

 tural polition, they fweep the incautious purfu r and his 

 horfe from the ground, and dafli them in pieces againft the 

 furrounding trees. 



" The eyes of the rhinoceros are very fmall, and lie lel- 

 dom turns his head, and therefore fees nothing but what 

 18 before him. To this he owes his death, and never efcapes, 

 if there is fp much plain as to enable the horle to get before 

 him. His pride and fury then make him lay afide all 

 thoughts of elcaping, but by victory over his enemy. He 

 Hands for a moment at bay ; then, at a ilart, runs llraight 

 forward at the horfe, like the wild boar, whom, in his 

 manner of action, he -very much refembles. The horfe 

 eafily avoids him, by turning fliort to a fide ; and this is the 

 fatal initant : the naked man, with the fword, drops from 

 behind the principal horfeman, and, unfeen by the rhino- 

 ceros, who is feeking his enemy, the horfe, he gives him a 

 ftrokc acrofs the tendon ot the heel, which renders him in- 

 capable of further flight or reliltance. 



" In fpeaking of the great quantity of food neceflary to 

 fupport this enormous mafs, we mult likewife confider the 

 valt quantity of water which he needs. No country but 

 that of the Shangalla, which he pofleffes, deluged with fix 

 months' rain, and full of large and deep bafons, made in the 

 living rock, and fhaded by dark woods from evaporation, or 

 watered by large and deep rivers, which never fall low or 

 to a Hate of drynefs, can fupply the valt draughts of this 

 monflrous creature. But it is not for drinking alone that 

 he frequents wet and marlhy places : large! fierce, and 

 itrong as he is, he mult iubmit to prepare himfelf againft 

 the weakelt of all adverfaries. The great confumption he 

 conltantly makes of food and water necefiarily confine him 

 to certain limited fpaces ; for it is not every place that can 

 maintain him. He cannot emigrate, or feck his defence 

 among the fends of Atbara." 



The rhinoceros with two horns was the fpecies deicribed 

 by Martial, under the name of rhinoceros cornu gemino, who 

 relates its combat with the bear. 



" Namque gravem gemino cornu fie extulit urfum, 

 .lactat ut impofitas taurus in aftra pilas." 



Spcdt. Epig. 22. 



The Romans, who procured their rhinocerofes from 

 Africa] rcprefent them with double horns. That figured 

 in the i'renelline pavement, and that in a coin of Domitian, 

 have two horns; that which Paulanias defcribes (ix. ij.) 

 under the name ot Ethiopian bull, had one horn in the nole, 

 and another Idler higher up ; and Colmas ./Egyptius 

 (torn. ii. 334.), who travelled into ^Ethiopia, in the reign 

 of Juftinian, alio attributes to it the fame number. Au- 

 gultus introduced a rhinoceros (probably of this kind) into 

 the (hows, on oecalion ot his triumph ov( r Cleopatra. Dion 

 C'.illius, lib. ii. Phil. Tranf. abr. vol. ix. ubi fupra. Id. 

 vol. lvi. p. if, &c, 



M. GeofTroy of France think . there are, or at leall have 

 been, no lets than live different Ipeeies of the rhinoceros ; 

 vix. i. The rhinoceros africanus, cornu gemino of Cam- 

 per, who has given a figure of the Ikull 111 the Peterfburgh 

 Tranfaftiona for 177". 2. The fpecie: found foflile in Si- 

 beria, which M. GeofTroy contends is different from the 

 common two-homed rhinoceros, though of that divilion of 

 t he genus. 3. That of which the fktill is figured by Cam- 

 pi r, and defcribed by him in a letter to Dr. Pallas, in the 

 petcrlburgh Tranfactions. This is a lingle-horned Ipeeies, 



, n d has been often confounded with the common rhinoceros. 

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4. The eommpn fingle-horned Aiie-t.c rhinoceros. 



y. The Sumatran rhinoceros, deicribed by Mr. Bell in the 



I'hil. Tranf. of the Royal Society of London. 



RHINOCEROS Avis, in Ornithology, the rhinoceros-bird, a 



name given by authors to a fpecies of Indian raven, called 

 by others corvus Inclicus cornulus ; the beak of which ia fre- 

 quently brought over into Europe. This, in the Linnxan 

 iyltein, is a fpecies of liuceros ; which fee. 



It is a very ugly bird, and of a very rank fmell. It 

 much exceeds the European raven in bignefs, and its head 

 and neck are very thick. It* eyes are very large, and its 

 beak of a very remarkable figure, having a large and thick 

 horn-like protuberance 01: its upper part. The whole beak 

 is bent like a bow, not hooked at the end like the beaks of 

 the hawk, &c. It is of a yellow ifli-white below, and on 

 the upper part towards the head is of a fine gay red, and 

 the reft of a yellowifh -white ; the upper chap is ferrated. 

 The horn grows out from the head with this, and runs 

 along it, and bends up at its extremity ; its upper and under 

 part are red, its middle yellow. The bird feeds on carrion. 

 RHINOCEROS, in the Hijlory of Infeds, a fpecies of beetle, 

 fo called, becaufe it has a kind of horn upon its head. 



RHINOCOLURA, or Rhinocorura, in Ancient Ceo- 

 graphy, a town of Syria, 22 miles from Raphia, and which 

 formed a kind of boundary between Syria and Egypt. 

 Strabo attributes it to Phoenicia ; and Pliny calls the fea, on 

 a ftrait of which this place is lituated, the " Sea of Phoe- 

 nicia." Diodorus Siculus fays, that this town, fituated on 

 the confines of Egypt and Syria, near the fea, was deftitute 

 of all the conveniences oi lite ; that its water was bitter and 

 noxious, and that it was furrounded with fait marlhes. It 

 was in the vicinity of this place that the Ifraelites were nou- 

 rifhed with quails. 



RHINOMACER, in Entomology, a genus of infects of 

 the order Colcoptera. The generic character is, antennx 

 fetaceous, feated on the fnout ; it has four feelers, growing 

 thicker toward-; the end ; the lafl joint is truncate. There 

 are three fpecies, none of which are found in this country. 



Species. 



CpRCULIOIDES. This is grey and downy ; the antennx 

 and legs are black. It inhabits Italy. It refembles a enr- 

 culio. The antennx are fetaceous and black, and as long 

 as the thorax ; the lalt joint is (harp ; the fhout is flat, and 

 imprefled in the middle. 



Attkj. \BOIDES. This is piceous-downy ; the antennx and 

 legs are teftaceoua. It is found in divers parts of Sweden. 

 The fnout is elevated and projected ; the body i-- cinereous. 



CjERULEUS. This fpecies is of a blueifh colour, and it 

 is fubvillous ; the bale of the antenna and legs are yellow, 

 It inhabits Calabria, and has been thought to be a Ipeeies 

 of the Attelabus ; which fee. 



RHINOPTES, a word ufed bv the ancients to exprefs a 

 perfon, who, from an ulcer in the great canthus ot the eye, la\ - 

 iugopeil the pall'agcs to the note, .an fee through Ills I ollnl. 



RHINOW, in Geography, a town of the Middle Mark 

 of Brandenburg, on the Rhine; 20 miles N. ot Brandenburg. 



RHINSBERG. See Reinsberg. 



RHINSBERGERS, in Ecckjiqflical Hijlory. See Cot- 



LEGIANS. 



RHIPjEI Monti's in Ancient Geography. ^c Ri- 

 I'li.r \\ Mountains. 



RHIPSALIS, m Botany, Gartn. t. :«. (See Cac- 

 1 rs, fp. ;;-.) Ii 1, curious to obferve how the reprefenta- 

 liun ot the fructification of this plant, in Miller's Illuftration 

 of the 1 linnxan fyftera, is made to anfwer to the generic cha- 

 racter of C.ajjytha, for which it had been erroneoully taken. 



RHTPTASMOSi J word ufed bv the ancients to e\- 



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