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irregular callosities were discoverable on the head, which render that 
of the unicorn -rhinoceros so hideous, but which do not exist in that 
of the bicorn of the Cape. It appeared also, that the hairs were very 
abundant on the feet, whilst none exist on these parts of the rhinoceros 
of the Indies or of the Cape. 
The existence of the fossil remains of the hippopotamus has not 
been so generally admitted as those even of the rhinoceros. M. Faujas 
St. Fond, who is eager to establish the eastern origin of our fossil 
remains, is of opinion that the hippopotamus, which he believes to be 
an animal not known in the East Indies, has not been found among 
the fossil remains of animals in this part of the world. This opinion 
he founds, on his never having seen any of the fossil remains of this 
animal in the several museums he visited in England, Scotland, 
Holland, France, and elsewhere ; and in finding no mention of them 
in the accounts of different travellers, or in the writings of those 
authors who have treated of the fossil remains of the larger quadrupeds. 
In Daubenton’s department of the Natural History of Buffon, it 
is observed by St. Fond, that a report is given of several fossil teeth 
of the hippopotamus, which were in the Museum of Natural History 
of Paris; but that, upon examination, these teeth appeared to be 
teeth of the mammoth, or of the animal of Simorre. 
On the other hand, M. Cuvier, on examining the teeth mentioned 
by Daubenton, found two of them to be actually the teeth of the hippo- 
potamus ; and although he found that Lang, Rome de I’Isle, Camper, 
Merck, and others, had mistaken the teeth of other animals for those 
of the hippopotamus, he found that Antoine de Jussieu, Mem. de 
l’ Acad. 1724, had undoubtedly described the fossil remains of this 
animal, as found in Montpellier, at a place called La Mosson. On 
further examination, it was clearly ascertained, that these fossils came 
from Languedoc, where other remains of this animal were also found, 
sufficiently proving the existence of the fossil remains of this animal. 
From the account also of M. Fabbroni, Director of the Royal 
