. 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 . RHINOCEROS.—Page 162Many varieties of this formidable animal are found in Asia and AfriccThe above figure represents the Asiatic variety, which has but one HJ- c- RHINOCEROS.—Page the African rhinoceros, Mr. Gumming, the famous hunter, d
. 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 . RHINOCEROS.—Page 162Many varieties of this formidable animal are found in Asia and AfriccThe above figure represents the Asiatic variety, which has but one HJ- c- RHINOCEROS.—Page the African rhinoceros, Mr. Gumming, the famous hunter, describesseveral kinds. The above figure represents the two-horned kind, which isfound nowhere but in Africa. Mr. Gumming killed many of this kind. THE RHINOCEROS.—THE CROCODILE. 163 generally, however, quiet and inoffensive. Its food consistsentirely of vegetables, the tender branches of trees, and suc-culent herbage, of which it will devour immense delights in retired and cool situations, neai lakes andstreams, and appears to derive one of the highest satisfactionsfrom the practice of rolling and wallowing in mud,—in thisrespect bearing a striking resemblance to the hog. This animal was exhibited, by Augustus, to the Romans,and is supposed to be the unicorn of the scripture, as it pos-sesses the properties ascribed to that animal, of magnitude,strength, and swiftness, in addition to that peculiarity of asingle horn, which may be considered as establishing theiridentity. This an
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