. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . is but very rarely daring enough to assailthe rhinoceros. Its upper lip is of considerable lengtli andpliability, acting like a species of snout, grasping the shootsof trees and various substances, and conveying them to themouth • and it is capable of
. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . is but very rarely daring enough to assailthe rhinoceros. Its upper lip is of considerable lengtli andpliability, acting like a species of snout, grasping the shootsof trees and various substances, and conveying them to themouth • and it is capable of extension and contraction at theanimals convenience. The skin is, in some parts, so thickand hard as scarcely to be penetrable by the sharpest sabre, oreven by a musket-ball. These animals are found in Bengal,Siam, China, and in several countries of Africa; but are farless numerous than the elephant, and of sequestered solitaryhabits. The female produces only one at a birth; and at theage of two years the horn is only an inch long, and at sixonly of the length of nine inches. The rhinoceros is not fero-cious, unless provoked, when he exhibits paroxysms of rageand madness, and is highly dangerous to those who encounterhim. He runs with great swiftness, and rushes through brakesand woods with an energy to which every thing yields. He is. RHINOCEROS.—Page 162Many varieties of this formidable animal are found in Asia and AfriccThe above figure represents the Asiatic variety, which has but one horn.
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