RHINOCEROS. 
nitude, in faft, approaches that of the ele- 
phant, though to the eye it seems very consi- 
derably less, on account of the disproportionai'e 
shortness of it's legs. 
In the more important gifts of nature, how- 
ever, which relate to intelligence, it is left at 
a V very humble distance from that sagacious 
animal, and appears to be elevated only in size 
from the meanest quadrupeds. It's skin is 
without sensibility ; and, instead of a trunk, 
it has merelv a moveable lip, to which all it's 
means of dexterity are confined. The chief 
sources of superiority vdiich it possesses over 
other animals, are found in it's magnitude and 
strength ; in the defensive impenetrability of it's 
hide ; and in that offensive weapon on the nose, 
which forms it's most distlnfruished chara61:e- 
ristic. This weapon is a solid horn of peculiar 
hardness; and, being situated far more advan- 
tageously than the horns of ruminating ani- 
mals, which defend only the superior parts ci 
the head and neck, it so protecls the muzzle, 
the mouth, and the face, that even the tiger, 
who ventures to seize the trunk of the ele- 
phant, 
