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<c thick, and Two Inches broad; of what Length 
u the Whole, is uncertain, this being only Part of it, 
“ though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock : It 
<c is about Nine Inches, black, and very rough. On 
<c the Two Edges, and there only, grow alfo very 
“ black and fhining Hairs, a Foot long, ftubborn, 
“ and of the Thicknefs of a fmaller Shoe-maker's 
“ Thread : Yet not round, as other Hair, but rather 
“ flattilh, like fo many little Pieces of Whalebone. ” 
It is further to be obferved, that the Hairs on the 
Left Side grow out a great way up towards the Root 
of the Tail, (being fhorter, as they are higher) like 
the Fibres of a Quill ; whereas, on the Right Side, - 
they grow no higher than the flat Part. There is no 
other Hair on any Part of this young Rhinoceros , 
except a very fmall Quantity, on the pofterior Edge of 
the upper Parts of the Ears. I have obferved a very 
particular Quality in this Creature, of liftening to any 
Noife or Rumour in the Street ; for though he were 
eating, fleeping, or under the greateft Engagements 
Nature impofes on him, he flops every thing fud- 
denly, and lifts up his Head, with great Attention, 
till the Noife is over. 
The Tenis of the Rhinoceros is of an extraordinary 
Shape: It is reprefented by Fig. 3. Plate III. There is 
firft a Theca , or Rneputhim-, arifing from the Inguinal 
Part of the Belly, nearly like that of a Horfe, which 
conceals (as that docs) the Body and Gians, when 
retraded. As foon as the Animal begins to extend it, 
the firft thing that is extruded, the Theca , is a fecond 
Sheath of a light Flefh-colour, and pretty much in 
Porm like the Flower of the ‘Digitalis floribus pur- 
pure is ) and then out of this another hollow Tube, 
which 
