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VI. A Letter from James Parfons, M. D . 
F. R. S. to the Right Honourable the Earl 
of Morton, Prefide?it of the Royal Society ; 
on the the double Horns of the Rhinoceros . 
My Lord; 
Read Feb. 27, T T J H E N I had the honor of lay— 
! 7 66 - ing my natural hiftory of the 
Rhinoceros before this learned Society in >1743, 
which is printed in number 470, page 523, -of the 
Tranfadtions, I had not an opportunity of the wing 
a double horn to the members ; I have, therefore, 
taken this hrft occafion to entertain the prefent mem- 
bers with a fight of a noble fpecimen of the horns 
of an African Rhinoceros, brought from the Cape 
of Good Hope, by my curious and worthy friend 
William Maguire efquire, among many other cu- 
1 iofities ; prefuming that few of the Society have 
ever feen a pair of the like kind. But what renders 
this fubjedt the more particular, and worthy of ob- 
fervation, is that, by means of knowing there is a 
fpecies of this animal, having always a double horn 
upon the nofe, in Africa, Martial’s reading is fup- 
ported againft the criticifm of Bochart, who changed 
the true text of that poet, in an epigram upon the 
drength of this animal ; for when Domitian ordered 
an exhibition of wild beads, as it was the curtom 
of 
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