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EXTINCT MONSTERS. 
But at Klagenfurt the popular legend has happily found a 
mouthpiece ; the head of the pretended dragon killed by the 
valorous knight is preserved in the Hotel de Ville, and this 
head has furnished the sculptor of the fountain with a model for 
the head of his statue. Herr Unger, of Vienna, recognised at 
a glance the cranium of the fossil rhinoceros ; its discovery in 
some cave had probably originated the fable of the knight and 
the dragon. It is always interesting to discover a scientific basis 
for fables which otherwise it would be difficult to account for. 
The same rhinoceros was once a denizen of our country, and 
its remains are met with in caves and river-gravels. Specimens 
of its skull have also been dredged up by fishermen from the 
“ Dogger Bank” in the North Sea. 
