Part I. Of Quadruped's. g 1 
trary to that Affertion of Ariftotle, (a) "Ef-i d m s{ Par 
oAV rtfioL wis l\<l<poi$ fronts* 1. 3.C.2. 
Another HORN of a RHINOCEROS, as big 
as that now defcrib'd. Given by Sir Robert Southwell, pre- 
fent Embailador to the Prince Elector of Brande?iburge. 
A THIRD, almoit as big as the former. 
A FOURTH, a little one, about a foot long. 
The Rhinoceros fights the Elephant with his Horn, and 
fometimes overcomes him. In Septaliuss 'Mufaum there 
are feveral Veflels mentiond to be made out of this Horn, 
as well as divers others. The Rhinocerous Horn, in India, 
as alfo his Teeth, Claws , Flefh, Skin , Blood , yea Dung 
and Pifs, are much efteemed, and us d againft Poifon, and 
many Difeafes 3 and fold at great rates, (b) Yet fome for ( p § 8 inc ^ 
an hundred times as much,as others of the fame colour and 
bignefs 5 for fome difference which the Indians ( only ) 
difcern betwixt them, (c) ( c ) ibid. 
The TAIL of a great RHINOCEROS. Notwell 
defcribed by Bontius. The Dock is about I inch thick, and 
two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what 
length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, 
though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock 3 'tis about 
nine inches, black, and very rough. On the two edges, and 
there only, grow alfo very black and fhining hairs, a foot 
long, flubborn, and of the thicknefs of a fmaller Sboomakers 
Thread. Yet not round, as other hair, but rather flatifh 5 
like fo many little pieces of Whale-Bone. 
A SPIRAL or WREATHED TUSK of an 
ELEPHANT. Prefented from the Royal African-Com- 
pany by Thomas Crifpe Efq$. 'Tis about an Ell long. At the 
bafe, a foot about. From the thin edges whereof, it is cho- 
nically hollow to the depth ( or height ) of near * a yard. 
It is twilled or wreathed from the bottom to the top with 
three Circumvolutions, Handing between two ftrait lines. 
'Tis alfo furrow'd by the length. Yet the furrows fur- 
round it not, as in the horn of the Sea-Unicorn 3 but run 
parallel therewith. Neither is it round, as the faid Horn, 
but fomewhat flat. The Top very blunt. 
Paufanias ( cited by Gefner ) affirms, and feems to fpeak. 
it as a thing well known, That the Tusks of Elephants, which 
he calls, and ufeth arguments to prove them Horns, may? 
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