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kept them within reafonable bounds. The hippopotamus 

 and crocodile abound in all the rivers, not only of Abyffinia, 

 but as low down as Nubia and Egypt : there is no good 

 figure nor defcription extant, as far as I know, of either 

 of thefe animals ; fome unforefeen accident always thwarted 

 and prevented my fupplying this deficiency. There are 

 many of the afs kind in the low country towards the frontiers 

 of Atbara, but no Zebras ; thefe are the inhabitants of Faz- 

 uclo and Narea, 



RHINOCEROS. 



NATURALISTS feem now in general to be agreed that 

 there are two fpecies of this quadruped, the firft ha- 

 ving two horns upon his nofe, the fecond one. It is alfo a 

 generally received opinion, that thefe different fpecies are 

 confined to diflant places of the old continent ; that with one 

 horn is thought to be exclufively an inhabitant of Afia, 

 that with two horns to be only found in Africa. 



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