RHINOCEROS. 
phant, dreads the risque of having it's bowels 
torn out by the horn of the Rhinoceros, and 
rather chuses to decline any attack. 
The body and limbs are covered with a skiff 
so thick and hard, as to be not only insensible 
to the stings of inserts, but impenetrable by 
the claws of the lion or tiger, or even the 
spear or bullet of the hunter. This skin is 
sometimes of a dark or dirty brown ; some- 
times of a fine grey, approaching to black ; 
and, sometimes, has the colour and appear- 
ance of an old elm-tree, partly spotted with 
black and grey, and partly doubled into deep 
furrows, which form a kind of scales. The 
skin, in general, is incapable of either exten-^ 
sion or contra6lion ; but there are large folds 
at the neck, the shoulders, and across the 
rump, to facilitate the motion of the head and 
limbs ; and, between these folds, as well as 
imder the belly, there appears a softer skin of 
a light flesh-colour.. 
The head is proportionably larger than that 
©f the elephant, but the eyes are smaller, and 
generally; 
