^ Detctiptfon of 7^ 
men have denyed that there is any fuch Creature 
: as an Unicorn^ but only an Inilan Afs, for many ap- 
proved Authors do fay, that /»d>/*» A(fes have but 
one horOj but the Scripture draweth many infe- 
rences from the nature of thisbeaft, and doth ap- 
ply them to good men and bad men, nay, even to 
Chrifi himfeli, therefore it muft ncflarily follow 
I that there are fiich Creatures as Unicorns^ and ac- 
cording to that judicious writer, JhUhs Cafar Sc*- 
tiger,, in his exercitations againll Cardauus, quo- 
teth one of his friends that faw one. 
As for the fecond queftion, whether a Uni- 
torn and a Rhinofcerote be not the fame. The word 
in Hebrew for a Rhinofcerote , which is 
Rheem, fignifieth an Umiorn , and a Rhinofcerote 
alfo, the other Hebrew word which the Jews ufe 
for it is CI3n> Rhum, which fignifieth both the 
, Unicorn and the Rhimfcerot, thus we find feveral 
have ufed Rhinofcerote and Monocerot for one and 
[ the fame Animal; b\xt Julius CefarScaliger inhis 
I Exercitations affirmeth the contrary, that the U»i- 
t corn and the Rhinofceret are two feveral Creatures ; 
f for the Unicorn hath but one horn in his fore-head* 
I but the Rhinofcerot hath two, one little one in his 
\ fore-head , and a great one in his fnowt, from 
I whence he taketh his name; but becaufe in the ho- 
ly tongue we have but one name for them both, we 
will handle the properties of them both in this 
Chapter. 
The Unicorn is a Creature about the bignefs of 
A Horfe, he hath the beard of 9, Goat, the head of 
; zHurtf he hath a neck with a large main, he bath 
the 
