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RHINOCEROS. 
The Rhinoceri are another race of enormous 
animals, which are peculiar to the warm parts of 
Africa and India, inhabiting the districts where 
vegetation is profuse, and where there is an abun- 
dance of water. They may be said to be charac- 
terized externally, principally by the great thick- 
ness and strength of their skin, which is destitute 
of hair, often arranged in folds, and presents, as it 
were, a mailed armour, almost impenetrable to an 
ordinary leaden bullet ; and by the nose and snout 
being furnished by one or two excrescences having 
the form and appearance of curved formidable 
horns. These are of a substance as if hair was 
agglutinated together, and rendered compact, 
possessing no central sheath, and unconnected 
with the bone of the skull. Mr Burchell’s remarks 
on their structure are interesting. “ The horn 
of the Rhinoceros, differing in structure from that 
of every other animal, and placed in a situation 
of which it is the only example, had long appeared 
