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large teeth are hollow, and have a medullary fubflance running up a great way on 
them: the grinders are folid, and their weight is very great. 
The elephant is a native of Africa, and fome other of the warmer countries, and 
even of fome colder climates. We have feen them occafionally preferved alive with 
us, and fhewn as curiofities. All the writers on animals have described it, under the 
name of Elephas. 
RHINOCEROS. 
T H E Rhinoceros has in each jaw eleven fore-teeth ; there are no canine teeth : 
the note is ornamented with a lingle or double horn, which is permanent. 
Rhinoceros cornu unico . %\)t common 
'The Rhinoceros , with a Jingle horn. Jl&raocejes. 
This, of all quadrupeds, approaches neareft to the elephant in fize, but it is not 
equal to it in that refpedt: the body is nearly as bulky, but the legs are much fhorter. 
A full-grown Rhinoceros meafures fourteen feet from the ground to the higheft part 
of the back, and the legs are fo remarkably fhort, that, with all this height, the belly 
comes near the ground : the head is very large and oblong, of an irregular figure, 
broad at the top, and narrower and deprefied toward the fnout: the ears are very large 
and long • they in fome degree refemble thofe of a hog, and are foft, and covered with 
a tender fkin : the eyes are very fmall, and there is fomething extreamly fingular in 
their fituation ; they do not {land on the upper part of the head, as in other animals, 
but at a fmall diftance from the extremity of the fnout: on the upper part of the 
fnout, near the extremity of it, there {lands a horn of a conic figure, and very 
{frong ; it grows to about two feet and a half in length, and is a little bent back¬ 
wards j it’s colour is black, and it’s fubftance very firm and hard. 
The neck is fhort and very thick ; the body rounded, and enormoufly big; the 
legs are very thick and clumfy to appearance, but all that {Length is neceflary to 
their being able to fopport fo immenfe a bulk of body: the feet are broad, and di¬ 
vided into toes > and the tail is fhort, and furnifhed with fome long and extreamly 
thick black hairs. 
The colour of the creature is a dirty tawny ; the fkin is remarkably thick and hard ; 
it is, indeed, fo hard, that the creature could not eafily turn itfelf in any dire&ions, 
but that nature has formed a kind of joints and folds in it $ by means of thefe it 
moves it’s body, though in an unwieldy and awkward manner. \ 
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It is a native of fome parts of Afia and Africa j it generally frequents the parts of 
the country which are far from the refort of men : it feeds on vegetables. We fome- 
times have it brought into Europe, and fhewn as a curiofity. The {kin of this crea¬ 
ture, like that of the elephant, is covered at little diftances with a kind of low protu¬ 
berances, refembling warts; thefe have all hairs growing out of them, but they are but 
few, and are very thick and black. It is not eafy to fay to what length they would 
grow, were they left to themfelves; for the creature is fubjedt to itchings of the {kin, 
and rubs them all off at but a little height above the {kin. The horn alfo often {hares 
the fame fate. There is one now kept as a {hew in London, in which the horn is 
not more than three inches high, and obtufe, which is owing to the creature’s conti¬ 
nually rubbing it down again# the walls and boards of the place where it is kept. 
Rhmoceros cornu gemino . 
The double-horned Rhinoceros . 
This is a large, unwieldy animal, in molt refpedts greatly refembling the former: 
the head is enormoufiy large and long ; it is fo bulky, that the creature feems to find 
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