3 o Of Quadruped's* P a r t I. 
r*)Hiftor. The Rhinoceros, fays Bontius, (a) is near as big as- an 
Nat. ' Elephant, faving that he is not fo tall He will lick a Man 
(b) ibid. to death, (b) by raking away the flefh to the Bone with his 
rough and {harp Tongue. 
In Pifos Figure, which he hath added to Bontiu6s De- 
fcription, and which, he faith, was taken from the life, the 
Eyes are placed very low, as they are alfo in this Skin. 
But the Cloven-Feet, in the fame Picture, I find not here : 
peradventure , the Skin not being well taken off the 
Feet. 
In the time of Domitian the Emperour, there was one fo 
big, as to tofs not only a Bear, but a Bull upon his Horn. 
EpigS & ( c ) But what Martial means , fpeaking of the Rhino- 
Epigr. p. ceros, 
lib. i. 
Namq'j gravem gemino Cornu fic extulis Vrfum, isc. 
88. 
I do not well underftand. The Figure given by Pifo, as 
above , reprefents but one Horn only. Neither doth 
Bontiw ( who faith he hath feen great numbers of them 
both in houfes and in the woods ) defcribe or mention any 
more than one Horn, And thofe who do fpeak of ano- 
ther, yet make it a very fmall one, and not over againft 
the other, but on the forepart of his back, and fo in a 
place where it is immoveable, and can no way be made ufe 
of for the tolling up of any thing, as the other on his 
Nofe. 
(d) Linfchot The Rhinoceros breeds not in Indiald) but in Bengala and 
Patane, where they much frequent the River Ganges. 
A piece of a great RHINOCEROS-SKI N,tann d. 
Tis wonderful hard, and thick, about V inch 3 exceeding 
that of any Land Animal which I have feen. 
The HORN of a RHINOCEROS. It once 
belonged to the Duke of Holfteine. Although Bontius 
defcribes the Animal the beft of any before him, yet nei- 
ther he , nor others defcribe the Horn to any purpofe. 
'Tis in colour and fmoothnefs like thofe of a Bull. Almolt 
a yard long. At the bafe, above half a foot over 3 and 
there furrounded with a Garland of black and ftubby 
Briftles. Sharp-pointed. A little crooked backwards, like 
a Cocks Spur. Quite through folid. An inftance con- 
trary 
