SINGLE-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 199 
strong, slightly curved, sharp-pointed horn, which, 
in the full-grown animal, is sometimes three feet 
in length, and eighteen inches in circumference 
at the base. The mouth has four cutting-teeth, 
which are placed at each corner of each jaw: 
there are also six grinders in each jaw; of which 
the first is remote from the cutting-teeth. (In 
strict propriety it may be doubted whether the 
four teeth first mentioned should be called by the 
title of cutting- teeth. ) The ears are moderately 
large, upright, and pointed : the eyes small : the 
skin naked, rough, and tuberculated, or marked 
with very numerous, large, callous granulations : 
it is destitute of hair, except a few straggling and 
very coarse bristles on some parts of the head, &c. 
About the neck the skin is disposed into several 
large plaits or folds: another fold of the same 
kind passes from the shoulders to the fore legs; 
and another from the hind part of the back to the 
thighs: the tail is slender, flattened at the end, 
and covered on the sides with very stiff and thick 
black hairs : the belly is somewhat pendulous, or 
shaped like that of a hog: the legs very short, 
strong, and thick: the feet marked into three 
large hoofs, all standing forwards. The general 
height of the Rhinoceros is about eight feet; but 
it is said that some have been seen in Sumatra 
and Java which nearly equalled the size of the 
Elephant; though they appeared lower, on ac- 
count of the sinking back ; the pendulous abdo- 
men, and short legs. 
The Rhinoceros is a native of several parts of 
