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only [in French meafure] nineteen Inched 
three hnes in length ; and I had feen horns 
much longer in the poffeffion offome of the 
Dutch planters. The height of the animal 
was fevcn feet five inches, and its length, from 
the fnout to the root of the tail, eleven feet 
fix inches. 
Refpefting the African rhinoceros. Dr. Spar- 
mann has publifhed a learned diflertation, as 
valuable for the refearches he made, as for the 
truth and corrednefs of the fads he relates. 
To attempt to fpeak of the animal after him 
would be expofmg myfelf to repetition, or to 
the. fliame of being accounted a plagiarift, I 
regret, however, that a work in which the 
rhinoceros is fo well defcribed Ihould be , ac- 
companied with fo faulty a figure. 
I allude only to the engravings publifhed in 
the French and Dutch tranllations. Having 
never feen the Swedifli original, I do not know 
whether it be equally defedive ; and under 
that uncertainty I fliall one day publift a draw- 
ing of the animal, fuch as I took it from nature. 
In the tranllation of Bruce's Travels into 
Abyffinia, there is another figure of the two- 
horned rhinoceros ; but it is faulty alfo ; as 
the 
