TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
in it's rage, become firm and immoveable. 
This is confirmed by Dr. Sparman, who ob- 
served that they were fixed to the head, or 
rather nose, by a strong apparatus of sinews 
and muscles, so as to afford the animal the 
power of giving a steady fixture whenever 
occasion demanded. Augustus introduced a 
Rhinoceros — probably, of this kind — into the 
shews, on occasion of his triumph over Cleo- 
patra. 
I , Mr. Bruce's figure of a Rhinoceros," 
observes Pennant, with much sarcastic seve- 
rity, lies under some suspicion of being most 
faithfully copied from the single-horned spe- 
cies of M. De Buffon ; with the long upper 
lip, and every characteristic fold and plait: but, 
by the addition of another horn, it becomes 
Bicornis ; and, as Mr. Bruce, very justly, twice 
observes, the first drawing of the kind ever 
presented to the public!'* So true is the old 
.saying — '* Semper aliquid novi Africam af- 
ferre!" — There' is always something new 
coming from Africa!"] 
" I am indebted to Mr, Paterson for my 
figure 
