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Of Quadrupeds. 
ART 
I. 
(a) Hillor. 
Cent. 2. 
(b) InBont. 
Hift. N. Tnd, 
Orient. I.5. 
c. <?. 
(c ) Pifo ill 
Bout. 
(d) Joh. de 
I .act, out of 
Lerius. 
(e J Cited by 
Aldmiandits. 
On his upper Jaw, he hath two Homs , of the fame hard- 
nefs and fubftance with the two great Teeth now deferib’d .- 
and Bartholine (a) calls them Teeth. Yet are they not 
Teeth, but Horns 3 becaufe they arc not, as all Teeth, even 
the Tusks of an Elephant , fixed in the Jaw with their 
Roots upward, but downward : and fo their Alveoli are 
not open downward within the Mouth, but upward upon 
the top of the fnout: where thefe Horns bore or pierce the 
flelh and skin, as the Teeth do the Goorns. Yet being two, 
they hand not in the middle, as in the Rhinoceros , but on the 
Tides of the fnout, fc. behind the Cuters about two inches. 
Near their Roots about half inch over, ending in a fharp 
point, bended upward and backward like a filh-hook, by 
the bow about ■ a foot long. 
Pifo (bj deferibing of it, faith, That in his nether Jaw 
(his upper Jaw he deferibes after) there are two great Tusks 
which Itand upright,and bore through his fnout ( Roftrumq ; 
perfor antes ): which is a fenfelefs mil take. Bartholine indeed 
faith of the Horns (which he calls the Teeth) of the upper 
Jaw, —prodeunt ex fuperiori Maxilla carnem Roftri perfo- 
rantes '■ which Pifo tranferibing, nuftakes, and feigns as great 
an abfurdity, as if Nature had put a Padlock or Eolt upon 
the Creatures Mouth. 
Ariflotle , as was before noted, fiid well, as to the Ani¬ 
mals he had feen. That no one hath both Tusks and Horns. 
But of his fault in affirming too generally, this Animal is 
not the only mlfance, by many. The reafon why this hath 
both, may be, bccaufe neither of them are very great, and 
his Horns, proportionably to what they are in other?, are 
very little. Befides that he is cover’d with hair, and not, 
as the Boar, with Briftles, which probably fpend more up¬ 
on the fame matter, which in other Creatures makes the 
Horns. For Briftles feem to be nothing elfe but a Horn 
fplit into a multitude of little ones. 
This Creature is faid (c) to breed only in the Ifland 
Bouro. Yet that which the Draft Hans call the Tajacuguitas, 
(d) may be the fame. As alfo Pigafeta’s Porcus Quadricor- 
nis. There are Swine, faith he, (e) in the Philippic flihnds, 
with two, three, and four Horns. He might miftake die 
two Tusks for Horns 5 and from thofe which he faith had 
but two or three, they might be violently broken off. 
Another 
