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MAMMALIA. 
reproduced in works on natural history. Only this representation 
of it is very inexact ; for Albert Durer had executed it after an 
incorrect drawing sent him from Lisbon into Germany. During 
the eighteenth century, a Rhinoceros was brought to Holland ; 
two were taken to London at the end of the same century. The 
menagerie at Versailles bought one of these last-named animals, 
which very soon died, and was dissected by Mertrud and Vicq 
d’Azyr. Since the beginning of our century, Europe has received 
many of these gigantic and curious quadrupeds (hut only of one 
species until quite recently) . 
The Great Indian Rhinoceros inhabits the regions situated 
beyond the Ganges, and especially the valley of Opam, along the 
base of the eastern Himalaya Mountains. It is more than three 
metres in length and two metres in height. Its head is short and 
triangular ; its mouth, of a moderate size, has an upper lip, which 
is longer than the lower, pointed and movable. It has in each 
jaw two strong incisive teeth. Its eyes are small ; its ears are 
rather long and movable. The horn upon its nose is pointed, 
conical, not compressed, sometimes two feet in length, and slightly 
curved backwards. This singular weapon is composed of a 
cluster of hairs closely adherent ; for when the point is blunted, 
it is often seen divided into fibres resembling the hairs of a 
brush. This horn is, however, very solid, hard, of a brownish 
red on the outside, of a golden yellow inside, and black in 
the centre. 
The neck of this animal is short and covered with folds and 
creases. Its shoulders are thick- set and heavy ; its ponderous 
body is covered with a skin remarkable for the deep wrinkles or 
creases with which it is furrowed, backwards and across the fore- 
quarters, and across the thighs. Thus, as it were, to all appear- 
ance cut up into plaits of mail, the Great Indian Rhinoceros seems 
to be covered with a cloak made for it. This cloak has, indeed, 
been compared to a suit of armour of well adjusted pieces. The 
hide is, however, so thick and hard that, without these creases 
or folds, the animal, imprisoned, as it were, in its armour, could 
scarcely move. It is of a dark colour, nearly bare, generally 
provided only with a few coarse and stiff hairs on the tail and 
ears, occasionally with curly woolly hairs on certain parts of the 
