W REMAINS OF THE RHINOCEROS. 227 
Aliganysj the North Mountains, and the 
Solij °“‘'^ains ; in the anterior parts of Pennsylvania and 
''Wia ’ in New Jersey, a few miles from Phila- 
t,S 
' “ careful attention to every circumstance, 
. '^ceives we have a right to conclude, that 
M. 
at tills 
or animal of the Ohio, did not surpass 
>: in height, but was a little longer in propor- 
S’s',‘^/'ntbs ratiierthickej- 5 and its belly smaller. It 
ill, i'*'® ''ciy much resembled the elephant in its 
J*''' aw’’ indeed, in the whole of its osteology; audit 
r'^bla bad a trunk. But, notwithstanding its 
N die elephant, in so many particulars, the 
Nnj^.^^h-uciure of the grinders are sufficiently dilierent 
, ."listi,. tile elephant, to demand its being placed in 
'll!. . t fjiscoveries respecting 
V,' bie h “cen smiuar lo uiai oi - 
but preterring tlie roots and fleshy parts ot 
It ■'•lin- 1 ' *°* X iUlU LllL- iUtV-J- VAiJv.v/1--- i 
th*? 'hus, i’ Cuvier is .also inclined to suppose that Us 
have been similar to that of the Ifippopotamus 
search of which species ot food it 
‘bourse, be led to such soft and marshy spots as 
s,®’' to K iKive inhabited. It docs not, however, ap- 
'•inr.i aav,^ u, ^ , ■ ■■ 
- - . 
*mvti luliaoucu. XL aUL'S iJUi, 
been at all formed for .swimming, or lor living 
I r Is «... ■ « • 1 — 
to 1 't'aters, like the hippopotamus, but ratlier 
*^ve been entirely a terrestrial animal. 
®0SS,L 
UEMAINS OF THE IIHINOCKROS. 
L^liat ffi be tliree living species ot rhinoceros : 
5 ■‘udia, a unicorn, with a rugose coat, and with 
(2 ^I’^’-uted, by a space, from the grinders. 2. dhat 
“ bicorn, tlie skin without rugte, and having 
CX ®bt grinders, and no incisors. 3. That of Sumatra, 
ij.of ^ skin but slightly rugose, thus tar resembling 
L-ape, but having incisive teelli, like that ot 
in'^u5 ’^®™a'ms of the rhinoceros have been generally 
f countries wdierc the remains of elephants 
W j but they do not ajipear lo have so gene- 
tta attention ; and, perhaps, but few of those 
Hley k ?*'®d them were able to determine to w'hat ani- 
«*onged. Thus a tootlr of this animal is described 
