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ijmething lefs than thirteen inches. The flat part of the 

 horn, where it was bare at its bafe, and diverted of hair, . 

 was four inches, and the top two inches and a half broad. 

 In the middle it was an inch and quarter thick ; it was flia- 

 ped like a knife ; the back two inches, and, when turned,,, 

 meafured one fourth of an inch at the edge. 



It feems now to be a point agreed upon by travellers and 

 naturalifts, that the famous animal, having one horn only 

 upon his forehead, is the fanciful creation of poets and 

 painters ; to them I fhould willingly leave it, but a Sweduli 

 naturalifl, Dr Sparman, who has lately published two vo- 

 lumes in quarto, in which he has diftinguifhed himfelf 

 by his low illiberal abufe of learned foreigners, as much 

 as by the fulfome flattery he has bellowed on his own 

 countrymen, has fhewed an inclination to revive this an- 

 tiquated fable. I do not, for my own part, believe the au- 

 thority will be thought fumcient, or have many followers. 

 The publifher, by way of apology, as I fuppofc, for his ruf- 

 ticity and ill-manners, fays, that he was employed in labour 

 to earn a fuflicient fum upon which to travel. What la- 

 bour he applied to is not faid ; it was not a lucrative occu- 

 pation furely, or the Doctor was not an able labourer, as 

 the fum produced was but 38 dollars, and I really think 

 his knowledge acquired, feem to be pretty much in pro- 

 portion to his funds* 



Kolbe mentions what would feem a variety of the rhino- 

 ceros at the Cape. He fays it has one horn upon its nofe, 

 and another upon his forehead. This the Count de BufTon. 

 thinks is untrue, and, from other circumilances of the nar- 

 rative, fuppofes that Kolbe never faw this rhinoceros, and' 



has 



