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THE RHINOCEROS. 
dent produced an inflammation, which caused 
his death, about nine months afterwards, 
a caravan near Portsmouth. 
The two-horned rhinoceros, in size and 
many of its general habits, closely resemble® 
the species already described ; hut it differ® 
considerably in external appearance. 
skin, instead of the regular armour-like fold® 
which mark the other, has only a slight w'rifl' 
kle on the shoulders and on the hind parts, 
as to appear almost smooth, though the sU’’' 
face, especially in the larger individuals, r® 
rough and tuberculated. Its chief distinction’ 
however, consists in the two horns, one sinalh*^ 
than the other, and placed higher up on th® 
front. Sparrman has observed that thoS^ 
horns are not attached to the skull-bone, 
fixed to the nose by a strong apparatus n 
muscles and tendons, so that the animal can 
fix or relax them at pleasure : thus they 
said to be loose when the animal is quiet. 
but 
