. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . he eyes, and round the ears; sothat huntsmen, instead of attacking this animal standing, follow him at adistance by his track, and wait to approach him at the time that he sleepsor rests himself. There is, in the king of Frances cabinet, the fetus of arhinoceros, which was sent from the island of Java, and extracted from thebody of the mother. It was said, in a memorial which accompanied thispresent, that twenty-eight huntsmen had assembled to attack this rhinoc
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . he eyes, and round the ears; sothat huntsmen, instead of attacking this animal standing, follow him at adistance by his track, and wait to approach him at the time that he sleepsor rests himself. There is, in the king of Frances cabinet, the fetus of arhinoceros, which was sent from the island of Java, and extracted from thebody of the mother. It was said, in a memorial which accompanied thispresent, that twenty-eight huntsmen had assembled to attack this rhinoce-ros. They had followed her far off for some days, one or two men walkingnow and then before, to reconnoitre the position of the animal. By thesemeans, they surprised her when she was asleep, and came so near insilence, that they discharged, all at once, their twenty-eight guns into thelower parts of her belly. A rhinoceros, about a year old, recently brought from Galcutta, waslately exhibited in Boston. The engraving furnishes a very exact represen-tation of this animal. Its length, from the nose to the insertion of the tail4. was six feet; its height, three feet four inches. The length of its head,eighteen inches; that of its tail, thirteen inches. The horn had not madeits appearance upon the nose, but there was a large protuberance, whichindicated the place where it was growing, and seemed to form the root 01basis of it. The animal, when disturbed, made a noise like a young had very much the air and manners of a hog. It betrayed no fear 308 MAMMALIA—RHINOCEROS. or shyness, but seemed constantly intent upon getting something to fed upon hay, potatoes, and grain, and so greedy was its appetite, thatnothing came amiss. Another recently arrived at Boston, and died in theharbor. It was about a third larger than the one above mentioned. Itsskeleton, beautifully prepared, is now in the Cabinet of the Boston Societyof Natural History. We have seen that this animal
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