HIPPQPOTAME. 
XII. HIPPO- 
POT AME. 
Four cutting teeth in each jaw : two tufks in each* 
Each hoof divided into four parts. 
5qTIippopo- 
TAM.E, 
Itttto; 7totoc[jaos Ariftot. hi ft. An. 
lib. II. c. 7. 
us Plinii, lib. viii. 
Hippopotami 
c. 20. 
Belon obf. 104. des Poiffons 19, 20. 
Gejher quad. 493. Radzwil iter 
Hierofol. 142 . Ran fyn, quad. 123. 
River horfe, or Hippopotamus, 
Grew s Mufeum , 14. tab. I. Lu- 
dolph. JEthiop. 60. 
Cneropotamus et Hippopotamus 
Projp. Alp. bijl. JEgypty I. 243. 
Sea horfe Leo Afr. 344. Sea oxe 
ibid. Lobo Abiff. 105. Kolben. Cape. 
XI. 129. 
Hippopotamus, or Behemoth. 
Shaw’s r Ara r u. Suppl. 87. 
Sea horfe Dampler’s Voy.II. 104. 
Adanfon’s Voy . 133. Moore’s Foy. 
Gambia, 105, 188, 216. River- 
Paard. Houttuyn Nat. bijl. III. 
405. tab. 28. 
Water Elephants. Barbot Foy. 
Guinea , 113, 73. 
Hippopotamus pedibus quadri- 
lobis. H. amphibius. Lin. JyJl . 
101. Haffelquifl iter, 201. Klein 
£ uad. 34. 
,’Hippopotame de Buff on, XII, 
22. tab. hi. Briffon quad. 83. 
Br. Muf. AJhm. Muf. 
H. with four cutting teeth in each jaw •, thofe in the 
lower jaw fir ait and pointing forward, the two mid- 
dlemoft the longeft: four tufks; thofe in the upper 
jaw fhort; in the lower, very long and truncated 
obliquely : head of an enormous fize: its mouth 
vaftly wide: the ears fmall and pointed, lined 
within very thickly with fhort fine hairs : the eyes 
and noftrils fmall, in proportion to the bulk of the 
animal: on the lips are fome flrong hairs fcattered 
in patches here and there : the hair on the body is 
very thin, of a whitifh color, and fcarce difcernible 
at firft fight: there is no mane on the neck, as 
fome writers feign; only the hairs on that part are 
rather thicker: the fkin is very thick and flrong, 
and of a dufky color: the tail is about a foot long, 
taper, comprefled and naked: the hoofs are di¬ 
vided 
