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tlie French engraver has improperly given it 
the folds of the one horned rhinoceros, which 
it certainly has not, at leaft in the fouthern 
part of Africa : and that thefe animals are fo 
formed in Abyflinia, I very much doubt. 
In fpeaking of Quammedaka, a canton fitu- 
ated to the eaft, Mr. Sparmann fays, " that it is 
" the principal abode of the two-horned rhino- 
ceros." The author is here miftaken ; but 
his error is the more pardonable, as he had 
not an opportunity of vifiting countries which 
would have afforded him better inioi mation. 
The tiger, the lion, and other quadrupeds, 
which live upon prey, frequent di ft rids where 
flocks are fed, and which produce an abun- 
dance of wild animals. With the rhinoceros 
the cafe is different. As his food, like that of 
the elephant, confifts in vegetables, which are 
every where to be found, and as he is llill 
more favage, he removes, like the elephant, 
from all inhabited places. 
It may be readily perceived, therefore, that 
with fuch habits, inftead of preferring for his 
refidence a peopled diftrid, interfperfed with 
farms, like that of Qiiammedaka, he oueht on 
the contrary to avoid ir. If from time to time 
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