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which is known living ; since the incisive teeth, in the rhinoceros of 
Asia and Sumatra, are considerably larger, independent of the age of 
the animal. Hence, if any of the fossil rhinoceroses had incisive 
teeth, it appears that they must have existed in the lower jaw only, 
and have also differed in size, and probably in form, from those of the 
living rhinoceroses. 
It appears that two incisive teeth of the rhinoceros are in the cabinet of 
the celebrated anatomist Soemmereng, which, it is said, were dug out of 
the earth in the neighbourhood of Mentz ; one of which has been figured 
by Merck, and another by M. Adrian Camper. Supposing, M. Cuvier 
observes, that these teeth are really fossil, they prove nothing contrary 
to what has been assumed above. This circumstance can only show, 
that there is also, among the fossil species, one which is different from 
that which has been hitherto found. The grinder teeth of the fossil 
species appear to agree precisely with those of the living species. 
The fossil remains of the rhinoceros have been generally found in 
the same countries where the remains of elephants have been found : 
but they do not appear to have so generally excited attention ; and 
perhaps but few of those who discovered them were able to determine 
to what animal they belonged. Thus a tooth of this animal is de- 
scribed by Grew merely as the tooth of a terrestrial animal ; and the 
remains of this animal, found in the neighbourhood of Canterbury, 
were supposed to have belonged to the hippopotamus. 
In Hartzberg, in the principality of Grubenhagen ; Quedlimbourg, 
Darmstadt, the borders of the Rhine, Mentz, Strasbourg, the neigh- 
bourhood of Cologne, Westphalia, numerous parts of France, and in 
several parts of Great Britain, have the remains of the rhinoceros 
been found. In Siberia these remains have been found in consider- 
able quantities. Pallas, whose researches have been particularly di- 
rected to this part of the world, made the astonishing discovery of a 
complete rhinoceros, still covered by its skin, and buried in the sand 
on the borders of the river Wiluji. 
