166 THE INDIAN RHINOCEROS. 
rough base above an inch high, is black and 
smooth at the top, like those of the ox-kind, but 
rugged downwards ; the determination of its 
growth is backwards, instead of straight up ; 
which is apparent, as well in the different horns 
of old Rhinoceroses, as in this of our present 
subject; for the distance from the base to the 
apex of this, backward, is not within a third part 
so long as that before, and it has a curved direc- 
tion ; and, considering the proportion of this 
animal’s size to its horn, we may justly imagine, 
that the creature which bore any one of those 
great ones, must have been a stupendous animal 
in size and strength; and, indeed, it were no 
wonder, if such were untractable at any rate. 
“ The sides of his under jaw are wide asunder, 
slanting outward to the lower edge ; and back- 
ward to the neck, the edges turn outward ; from 
this structure his head naturally looks large. 
The part that reaches from the fore part of the 
horn towards the upper lip, may be called the 
nose, being very bulky, and having a kind of 
circular sweep downward towards the nostrils : 
on all this part he has a great number of rugae 
running across the front of it, and advancing on 
each side towards his eyes. The nostrils are 
situated very low, in the same direction with the 
rictus oris, and not above an inch from it. If we 
look at him in a fore view, the whole nose, from 
