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the word Reem, Arwe Harifli, and this the Septuagint tran- 

 flates Monoceros, or Unicorn. 



If the Abyffinian rhinoceros had invariably two horns, 

 it feems to me improbable the Septuagint would call him 

 Monoceros, efpecially as they muft have feen an animal of 

 this kind expofed at Alexandria in their time, then firft men- 

 tioned in hiftory, at an exhibition given by Ptolemy Phila- 

 deiphus at his acceffion to the crown, before the death of 

 his father, of which we have already made mention. 



The principal reafon of tranilating the word Reem, Uni- 

 corn, and not Rhinoceros, is from a prejudice that he muft 

 have had but one horn. But this is by no means fo 

 well-founded, as to be admitted as the only argument for 

 eflabliihing the exiftence of an animal which never has 

 appeared, after the fearch of fo many ages. Scripture 

 fpeaks of the horns of the unicorn *, fo that, even from this 

 circumltance, the reem may be the rhinoceros, as the Afia- 

 tic, and part of the African rhinoceros, may be the unicorn. 

 It is fomething remarkable, that, notwithftanding Alexan- 

 der's expedition into India, this quadruped was not known 

 to Ariftotle f. Strabo and Athenasus both fpeak of him 

 from report, as having been feen in Egypt. Pauianius calls 

 him an Ethiopic bull ; the fame manner the Romans called 

 the elephants Lucas bovis, Lucanian oxen, as being firft feen 

 in that part of Magna Grecia. Pompey exhibited him firft 



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* Deut. chap, xxxiii. 17. Pfalm xxii. 21. 

 t This (hews that the Mofaic pavement of Pnenefteis not a record of Alexander's ex* 

 pedition into India, as Doctor Shaw has pretended, feci. vii. p. 423. 



