S^B The Hijlory of ANIMALS, 
pain in holding it up, and is always feen in the wild hate with it in a depending pof- 
ture : the ears are large } the eyes (mail, and placed near the extremity of the Lout: 
at the upper part of the nofe, and near it’s tip, there grows a large horn, as in the 
other fpecies; and, juft behind it, another of the fame form and colour, butimaller 5 
they are both of a firm and hard texture, and pointed at the extremities; but the 
larger never grows to fo great a length in this fpecies, as in the other, which has it 
fingle. 
The neck is moderately long and thick, efpecially toward the fhoulders ; the body 
is of the fame enormous bulk as in the other ; the legs alfo are very thick and fhort, 
and the feet in the fame manner divided into toes: the tail is about a foot and a half 
king, not very thick, naked for three fourths of it’s length, but at the tip furnifhed 
with hairs not very numerous, but thick, and confiderably long. 
The fkin is thick and hard, as in the preceding fpecies, and in the fame manner is 
covered with little protuberances, in form of jwarts; the hairs are few, but they are 
very thick and ftrong; they arife from thefe, and are black, and of fome length! 
This is a native of fome parts of the world with the former; travellers have feen 
it living, but we never had one brought over to Europe. We have fometimes met with 
the horns preferved, with a part of the fkin of the head to which they grow j fome 
of our mufeums afford fpecimens of thefe, by which we are affured of their fituation, 
a circumftance concerning which many have erred. 
HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
r '¥ H E fore-teeth of the upper jaw of the Hippopotamus are four, they are 
I placed in pairs, and at fome diftance j thofe of the lower jaw are prominent, 
and the intermediate ones are protended forward : the canine teeth are fingle and ob¬ 
liquely truncated; the teats are only two, and they are placed near the groin. 
Hippopotamus cauda brevi. 
The Hippopotamus , with a fhort tail . 
This is a very large and unwieldy animal; it is equal to a common ox in fize: the 
head is very large, oblong, and fome what depreffed, and is obtufeand thick toward 
the roftrum or extremity : the ears are about three inches in length, fo that they ap¬ 
pear fmall, in proportion to the bulk of the head : the eyes are fmall, and ftand not 
very high in the head; the mouth is very wide, and the teeth very large and ftrong: 
the canine ones are not exerted as in the boar, but, when the mouth is opened, they 
make a very formidable figure; they are fix inches long, and nearly as much in cir¬ 
cumference, and are not rounded, but of a fomewhat flatted and trigonal figure; they 
are harder than the teeth of any other known animal, very few tools will make the 
leaft impreflion on them, and they will give fire in great plenty on being ftruck a- 
gainft a fteel, in the manner of flint. 
The neck is moderately long, and very thick; the body is extreamly bulky, and 
rounded: the legs are very thick, and are between three and four feet in length : the 
foot is twelve inches in breadth, and is divided into four toes each, armed with a claw 
of near three inches in breadth, rounded and obtufe. 
The tail is very fingular in it’s form, it more refembles that of the tortoife than 
of any other animal; it is not more than fix inches in length, and is of a conic fi¬ 
gure, very thick at the bafe, and thence tapering very fwiftly to a point: the creature 
moves it up or down at pleafure, but it has no power of bending it. 
The fkin is very thick and black, it is perfectly naked; there is not the leaft ap¬ 
pearance of hair on it, only that about the mouth there are a kind of whifkers, as 
cats have. 
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