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has defcribed it only from hearfay. Though this, too, is 

 Doctor Sparman's opinion, yet, unwilling to let flip an op- 

 portunity of contradicting the Count de BufFon, he taxes it 

 as an improper criticifm upon this rhinoceros of Kolbe : he 

 fays the defcription is a juft one, and that a man of the 

 Count's learning mould have known that the forehead and 

 nofe of all animals were near each other. Although he has gi- 

 ven aftrange drawing of the fkeleton of the head of a rhi- 

 noceros, where the nofe and the forehead are very diftincT:- 

 ly different, yet, in another drawing, he has figured his rhi- 

 noceros bicornis, with a head feeminglyall nofe, and much 

 liker an afs than any thing we have feen pretended to be 

 a rhinoceros ever fince the time of Albert Durer. He pre- 

 tends that, in his travels at the Cape, he faw an animal of 

 this form, which had two horns upon his forehead, or his 

 nofe, whichever he pleafes to call them. If fuch an animal 

 does really exift, it is undoubtedly a new fpecies ; it has 

 not the armour or plaited fkin, feen in every rhinoceros 

 till this time. He tells us a heap of wonderful ftories 

 about it, and claims the honour of being the firft difcover- 

 er of it ; and really, I believe, he is fo far in the right, that 

 if he can prove what he fays to be true, there is no man that 

 will pretend to difpute this point with him. Befides its 

 having a fkin without plaits, it has two horns on the fore- 

 head, fo loofe, that they clam againft one another, and make 

 a noife when the animal is running : then he has one of 

 thefe only that are moveable, which he turns to one fide or 

 the other when he choofes to dig roots ; an imagination 

 fcarcely poflible, I think, to any one who has ever feen a 

 rhinoceros. With thefe loofe and claming horns he diverts 

 himfelf by throwing a man and horfe into the air; and, 

 though but five feet high, at other times he throws a load- 



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