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fkia like the elephant. No other kind is 
known at the Cape ^nd in the colonies ; and 
with regard to this fpecies, its fkin is not proof 
againft ball ; as is proved by the hunt of which 
I have here given the hiftory ; and I am per- 
fuaded, that the cafe is the fame with th^ one- 
horned rhinoceros. 
The fmall horn of the one we killed was 9 
third fliorter than the other. 1 have already 
remarked, that the large one was nineteen inches 
in length ; but what furprifed me was to find 
that this fo formidable weapon, with which he 
ploughed up the earth to a great depth, and 
threw around him very large ftones, was not 
implanted in the bone of the head ; that it ad- 
hered only to the fkin, and that v/hen the {kin 
w^as fhaken, it moved alfo. 
The eye of the rhinoceros, much too fmall 
in proportion to fo enormous a body, is funk 
very deep into the head ; becaufe the external 
Ikin, raifed round the orbit in feveral circular 
folds, forms a tube fome inches in length, at 
the bottom of which it is placed. 
This tube, by diminifliing the field of fight 
and concentrating the vifual rays, may perhaps 
ferye to ftrengthen the organ } but it prevents 
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