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fine, the Brafs Medal of Domitian , which you, Sir, 
were fo kind to fhew me, has, on one Side, the 
Figure of a Rhinoceros with Two Horns * upon the 
Nofe, very plain. From all which 1 cannot but be 
inclined to believe, that this Medal was ftruck from 
one of thofe of Africa ; and that Martial had no 
more Notion of a Rhinoceros with One Horn, than 
Bochart had of one with Two. 
There is one thing remarkable of Albert Durer : 
It is certain, from his Print of this Animal, that he, 
or fomebody elfe, concerned in his Figure, thought 
that Martial was right; for it is plain, they were 
willing to add a Second Horn to the Figure, and, 
being puzzled where to place the other, at laft put it 
upon the Neck; by which it further feems probable 
that Albert never faw the Bead +, but was led by the 
Poet’s Epigram to make that Addition to the Draw- 
ing fent to him from Rortugal. 
Auguftini alfo, in his ‘Dialogue of Medals , has a 
Figure of the Rhinoceros , with Two Horns on the 
Nofe. So hath likewife the Figure in the Rraneftan 
* Paufanias’s Teftimony is of great Force here, having feen them 
himfelf in Rowe, brought thither from Ethiopia , with a double 
Horn on the Nofe. His Words are : ^ . 
F.I</W q TatJptjf tvs Ti AiQionrmii, cttj tu <TV[^CiC»K r iTi x 
pjvox.'u’af, on atpiaiv iWAupcLTn ptvi ivzKairu x) V'drif outo i 
y-iyct, 07/7 q f KitpaAiif aefe dyyjw Ki&ftcL Scr. 
Vidi etiam Tauros JEthiopicos , quos ex reipfa Rhinocerotas nominant , 
quod illi e nare extrema cornu promine t,; <cr paulo fuperius alterum , 
non fane magnum, in capite jiullum prorfus habent . Paufan. Lib. IX. 
C. 21. 
-j- Petrus Maffejus makes this certain : He fays, that the Rhinoceros 
that arrived in Portugal in 1513. was fent by the King to the Pope , and. 
that the Ship which had him on board was caft away, and the Animal 
drowned on the Coaft of Genoa. 
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