HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Four cuting teeth, and two tusks in each jaw. 
Hoof divided into four parts. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hippopotamus amphibius. Pedibus quadrilobis. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 214. 
Has four rounded hoofs on each foot. 
Hippopotamus. .... Sm. Buff. v. 6. p. 277- pi. 18/. 
Penn. Hist , Quadr. 1. p. 157. 
pi. 31 and 32. Bewick's Quadr . 
Shaw Gen. Zool. 2. pi. 21 9. 
Daniell's Af. An. pi. 12. 
It appears extraordinary that Providence should 
have destined this huge animal to inhabit an ele- 
ment where it cannot exist, since it eats nothing 
that the rivers afford. During the night, the hippo- 
potamus leaves the waters to graze, and sometimes 
goes as far as six miles from the banks, either in 
search of food or of another river ; frequently doing 
great damage to the sugar-canes and plantations of 
rice and millet. This unwieldy creature moves hut 
