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marked. There were several other folds and 
wrinkles on the body and legs ; and the whole 
gave rather the appearance of softness. 
The legs were thick, shorty and remarkably 
strong; the feet armed with three distinct hoofs, 
of a blackish-colour, which surrounded half the 
foot, one in front, the others on each side. The 
soles of the feet were convex, and of a light 
colour, and the cuticle on them not thicker 
than on the foot of a man who is used to walk- 
ing. 
The whole skin of the animal is rough, and 
covered very thinly with short black hair. The 
skin was not more than one third of an inch in 
thickness, at the strongest part ; under the belly 
it was hardly a quarter of an inch ; any part of it 
might be cut through with ease by a common 
dissecting knife. 
" The animal had not that appearance of ar- 
mour which is observed in the Single-horned 
Rhinoceros. 
Since I dissected the male, I have had an 
opportunity of examining a female, which was 
more of a lead-colour : it was younger than the 
male, and had not so many folds or wrinkles in 
its skin ; of course it had still less the appearance 
of armour." 
The height of the first of these specimens, or 
the male, was, according to Mr. Bell, four feet 
four inches at the shoulder; nearly the same at 
the rump; and eight feet five inches from the tip 
of the nose to the end of the tail. 
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