200 t Scientific Intelligence . 
noceros, clothed in armour, and having the welted hide, has bee# 
given by Sir Everard Home, in a paper in the Philosophical 
Transactions for 1822. He obtained the particulars from the 
young man who was its keeper for three years at Exeter ’Change, 
where it died. u It was so savage,” says he, “ that about a 
month after it came, it endeavoured to kill the keeper, and near-, 
ly succeeded. It ran at him with the greatest impetuosity ; but 
fortunately the horn passed between his thighs, and threw the 
keeper on its head : the horn came against a wooden partition, 
into which the animal had forced it to such a depth, as to be 
unable for a minute to withdraw it, and during this interval the 
man escaped. Its skin, though apparently so hard, is only co- 
vered with small scales, of the thickness of paper, with the 
appearance of tortoise-shell ; at the edges of these, the skin it- 
self is exceedingly sensible, either to the bite of a fly, or the lash 
of a whip ; and the only mode of managing it at all, was by 
means of a short whip. By this discipline, the keeper got the 
management of it, and the animal was brought to know him ; 
but frequently, more especially in the middle of the night, fits 
of frenzy came on, and, while these lasted, nothing could con- 
troul its rage, the rhinoceros running with great swiftness round 
the den, playing all kinds of antics, making hideous noises, 
knocking every thing to pieces, disturbing the whole neighbour- 
hood, then all at once becoming quiet. While the fit was on, even 
the keeper durst not make his approach. The animal fell upon 
its knees, to enable the horn to bear upon any object. It was 
quick in all its motions, ate ravenously all kinds of vegetables, 
appearing to have no selection. They fed it on branches of the 
willow. It possesses little or no memory, dunged in one place, 
and, if not prevented, ate the dung, or spread it over the sides 
of the wall. Three years confinement made no alteration on its 
habits.” — See Phil. Trans. 1822, p. 43, 44. 
IV. GENERAL SCIENCE. 
40. Notice of Captain Scoresbfs Discoveries on the East 
Coast of West Greenland , or Lost Greenland , and of his voyage 
to that country, now in the press. — This country, on which colo- 
nies were planted in the tenth century, that increased up to 
