Part I. Of Quadruped's. 
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Another SKULL of the BABY R O U S S A. It is 
altogether like the former. Living that the Tusks and Horns 
are not fo crooked. So that one feems to be of the elder, 
or the Male, the other of the younger, or elfe the Female. 
Both the Natives, and others that live amongft them, 
efteem this Animal a delicate fort of Venifon. (a) Bontius! m 
The SKIN of a young RHINOCEROS, com- 
pofed indifferently to the fhape of the Animal. In the 
Defcription whereof Jacobus 'Bontius (b) comes the nearefl (b) Hilton 
to the truth. Yet is he very fhort and defective. To o*[' j ncL 
whole therefore, as far as may be by this Skin, I ihall add 
a better. 
Tis a yard long, and almofl a foot over 5 his head nine 
inches long, almofl eight over at the top. His Snout 
broadifh, as in a Calf. His Eyes little, as thofe of a Hog, 
about lot an inch long. They Hand low, not much more 
than three inches above his Nofe end. His Ears alfo like a 
Hogs. His Legs, as of the Hippopotamus, rateably fhort 5 
about ten inches long. His Tail, five and § ; flat, as that of 
the Caflor 5 but not fo broad, near the Buttocks an inch 
and I, at the end 1 an inch. 
The faid Skin is every where thick, and very hard 5 
excepting only his Ears which are fofter, and extream thin. 
It hath about ten Plica or Folds 5 two under the nether 
Jaw, one on the Bread, in the figure of the letter V, on the 
Neck one on each fide, one between the Shoulders femt- 
circular, on the Back two tranfverfly extended to the bot¬ 
tom of the Tides, with two more ftrait ones, carry Yi obli¬ 
quely on the Buttocks. 
The lower part of the Forehead and Snout cover’d with 
a kind of hard Cruft His Ears naked and fmooth. All 
the other parts rough with round fcaly Crufts; on the 
Back, Sides, and Belly, lefler, near a 1 of an inch over 5 on 
the nether Chap and Shoulders, bigger; on his Buttocks 
and Legs, the biggeft, about 1 an inch over. His Hair is 
black, fhort, and fine. So few, that there are not many 
more than feales or {hells 5 growing for the mofl part, out 
of the centre of the fhell 5 fo that he is almofl naked. His 
Dock is alfo naked on both tides, but on the edges there 
grows a confiderable quantity of longer and thicker Hair. 
The Animal being very young, had no Horn, norfo much 
as any fign of it. The 
