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the Standard of Nature for that Animal, and that 
therefore Martial ought rather to fay, that Two Bears , 
or (according to Bochart) Two wild Bulls , were 
toiled by the ftrong Horn of the Rhinoceros ; than that 
a finglc Bear was thrown up by his double Horn. 
On the other hand, we are lure, that the Romans 
had always a very great Commerce with the Afri- 
cans , and had many Cargoes of wild Bealls from that 
Quarter of the World. Is it not therefore likely, 
that they might more conveniently have obtained the 
feveral Rhinoceros' s that were fhewed in that City, 
from Africa than A (a ; face the PalTage to Italy 
from the former is but a fhort one, crofs the Me- 
diterranean Sea $ and that the Countries that pro- 
duce thofe Animals in the latter , are fo very remote 
from Italy ? For we find the Greeks had no Know- 
ledge of this Beall in the Time of Ariftotle , nor 
iince, that we know of 5 whereas the Romans , ac- 
cording to the Accounts given, have had Six ; One 
fhewed by Bompey the Great , One by Auguflus , 
Two by Homitian, One by Antoninus Bins , and the 
laft by Heliogabalus. 
Now we do not want fufficient Proofs to fhew, 
that there is a Species of thofe Animals in Africa , 
having Two Horns on the Nofc. Beter Kolbe> a 
‘ Dutchman , in his Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope , 
lays, there is one on the Summit of the Nofe, like 
the others, but having a fmaller clofe behind it. 
There arc alfo Two Horns in Sir Hans Sloane's 
Mufeum , flicking to the fame individual Integu- 
ments, not much more than an Inch from each 
other ; which is an undeniable Proof of the Exiflence 
of this Species ; fee the Plate III. Fig. 8. And, in 
