■ A P P F. N D r X. - 87 



one horn, was painted by Albert Durer, from the life, from 

 one of thofe fent from India by the Portuguefe in the be- 

 ginning of uie nxteenth century. It was wonderfully ill- 

 executed m all its parts, and was the origin of all the mon- 

 ftrous forms under which that animal has been painted, 

 ever fince, in all parts of the world. Several modern philo- 

 fophers have made amends for this in our days ; Mr Par- 

 fons, Mr Edwards^ and the Count ■ de Buffon, have given 

 good figures of it from life ; they have indeed fome faults, 

 owing chiefly to preconceived prejudices and inattention, 

 Thefe, however, were rhinocerofes with one horn, all Alia- 

 tics. This, as I have before faid, is the firft that has been 

 publifhed with two horns, it is defigned from the life, and 

 is an African ; but as the principal difference is in the horn, 

 and as the manners of this beaft are, I believe, very faith- 

 fully defcribed and common to both fpecies, I fhall only 

 note what I think is deficient in his hiftory, or what I can 

 fupply from having had an opportunity of feeing him alive 

 and at freedom in his native. woods. 



It is very remarkable, that two fuch animals as the ele- 

 phant and rhinoceros mould have wholly efcaped the de- 

 scription of the facred writers. Mofes, and the children of 

 Ifrael, were long in the neighbourhood of the countries 

 that produced them, both while in Egypt and in Arabia. 

 The clafling of the animals into clean and unclean, feems 

 to have led the legiilator into a kind of neceility of defcri- 

 bmg, in one of the clafles, an animal, which made the food 

 of the principal Pagan nations in the neighbourhood. Con- 

 fidering the long and intimate connection Solomon had 

 with the fouth-coaft of the Red Sea, it is next to impoflible 

 that, he was not acquainted with them, as both David his 



4. father- 



