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On his upper Jaw, he hath two Horns, of the fame hard- 
nefs and fubftance with the two great Teeth now defcrib'd ; 
(a) Hiftor. and Bartholine (a) calls them Teeth. Yet are they not 
Teeth, but Horns 5 becaufe they are not, as all Teeth, even 
the Tusks of an Elephant , fixed in the Jaw with their 
Roots upward, but downward : and fo their Alveoli are 
not open downward within the Mouth, but upward upon 
the top of the fnout : where thcfe Horns bore or pierce the 
he(h and skin, as the Teeth do the Gooms. Yet being two, 
they ftand not in the middle, as 111 the Rhinoceros, but on the 
fides of the fnout, fc. behind the Cuters about two inches. 
Near their Roots about half inch over, ending in a fharp 
point, bended upward and backward like a fifh-hook, by 
the bow about * a foot long. 
Hift N^ind ® defcribing of it, faith, That in his nether Jaw 
Orient j.5. (his upper Jaw he defcnbes after) there are two great Tusks 
c - 9- which ftand upright,and bore through his fnout (Roftrumq- y 
perf or antes ) : which is a fenfelefs miftake. Bartholine indeed 
faith of the Horns ( which he calls the Teeth ) of the upper 
Jaw, —prodeurit ex fuperiori Maxilla camem Roftri perfo- 
r antes which Pifo tranfcribing, miftakes, and feigns as great 
an abfurdity, as if Nature had put a Padlock or Bolt upon 
the Creatures Mouth. 
Ariftotle, as was before noted, faid well, as to the Ani- 
mals he had feen, That no one hath both Tusks and Horns. 
But of his fault in affirming too generally, this Animal is 
not the only inftance, by many. The reafon why this hath 
both, may be, becaufe neither of them are very great, and 
his Horns, proportionably to what they are in other.?, are 
very little. Befides that he is cover'd with hair, and not, 
as the Boar, with Briftles, which probably fpend more up- 
on the fame matter, which in other Creatures makes the 
Horns. For Briftles feem to be nothing elfe but a Horn 
fplit into a multitude of little ones. 
( c ) Pifo in This Creature is faid (c ) to breed only in the Ifland 
Bont * Bouro. Yet that which the Brafilians call the Tajacuguitas, 
(d) Joh.de (d) may be the fame. As alfo Rigafeta s Rorcm Quadricor- 
\S^ Mof ™> There are Swine, faith he, (e) in the Philippic k\^n&% 
( e ) cited by with two, three, and four Horns. He might miftake the 
Aidrovandm. tWQ ^ us ^ s f or Horns 5 and from thofe which he faith had 
but two or three, they might be violently broken off. 
Another 
