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Namque gravem gemino cornu Jic extulit urfum *• 
And which has given many Critics a great deal of 
Trouble to alter, as believing either Martial , or his 
Tranfcribers, were wrong in that Sentence. 
There is no where a greater Inftance of the Uncer- 
tainties that Mankind may be led into from con- 
jectural Reafoning, than in this very Subjed of the 
Rhinoceros s Horn. And although the feveral Critics 
who have handled this Matter, fhew abundance of 
Ingenuity in changing Martial' s Reading j yet if wc 
can make it appear, that there was a Rhinoceros with 
Two Horns on his Nofe in Rome , then that Roet 
was right; if not, Bochart has the better, who has 
altered it thus : 
Namque gravi geminum cornu Jic extulit urum -f*. 
The firft Knowledge we had in this Part of the 
World of that Animal, was of the one that was 
brought from AJia to the King of Portugal, men- 
tioned before; and as thofe brought into England 
fince that Time, viz. that in 1685. our prefent Sub- 
jed in 1739. and the Female Rhinoceros in 1741. 
were frngle horned ; and as likewife the great Num- 
ber of Horns that are to be found in the Mufeums of the 
Curious, brought from time to time from the Eafi- 
Indies , are alfo frngle 5 we may venture to aflert, that 
all thofe of AJia have really but one Horn upon the 
Nofe : And this is confirmed by many Gentlemen, 
who had feen thofe Creatures in Rerjia , and other 
Parts of the Eaft. From thence it is eafy to conclude, 
that this was the Reafon the frngle Horn was imagined 
* Martial , Epigr. Lib. IV. Epigr. 82. 
f Bochart , Tom. I. Lib. 3. pag. 931. 
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