>775- tually is fo, on the forehead. A figure fo plain and fimple as K o l b e ’s (vide the French edition) might have fufficed to prevent miftakes on this fubjeCt. In fine, it is neceifary to inform my readers, that what M. d e B u f f o n advances concerning the copulation o f the 6ne- horned rhinoceros, viz. that it is performed croupe a croupe, is not in the leaft applicable to the rhinoceros bicornis; but in all probability, this opinion is not true with regard to either fpecies, as in the two-horned rhinoceros which I examined, the penis was placed as forward under the belly as it is in a horfe; though, confidered with relation to the different bulk o f the two animals, it is much ihorter. in the animal which I differed it was no more than feven or eight inches in length, as may be feen in the fpecimen I brought home with me. In a rhinoceros, which had the appearance o f being old, it was not much larger. M . d e B u f f o n , after Dr. P a r s o n s , defcribes the penis in the onehorned fpecies as being ftill ihorter. Befides, he does not fay a word concerning the fituation of this member, but founds his conjecture on the fubjeCt o f this animal’s copulation, merely on the circumftance of its having heen ob- ferved to bend its penis backwards when it ftaled, in which direction confequently the urine was emitted. But this, perhaps, was owing to an accidental and vicious conformation ; or it might be done out of cleanlinefs, efpecially as we know that th& rhinoceros bicornis, at leaft has a very acute fmell, and feems to love cleanlinefs, from the circumftance of its chufing certain places near the bufhes to ft*le upon. It is poffible, indeed, that the animal may have a kind of mufculus ere&or, for the purpofe of occafionally altering altering the direction of this member. But I am afraid o f „ ’775- . . ' , . December. tiring my reader’s patience, by dwelling fo long on the fubjeCt of this quadruped; I ihall therefore at prefent only make mention of it, juft as it may happen to occur in the courfe o f my journal. Mr. Im m e lMa n likewife was at length tired of ftanding by and feeing me difleCt this beaft, and therefore )fet out before us on his road home, with a view to repofer between whiles, and cool himfelf under fome iliady tree. In order to go, as it appeared to him, a nearer way, he rode over a hill overgrown with buihes. From this fpot a rhinoceros ruihed out upon him, and he would certainly have been trampled to death by this huge creature, or elfe have been taken up by it on its horns, and, together with his horfe, thrown up into the air, had not this latter in his fright made a fudden ftart, and by feveral fide leaps carried his rider through the buihes, out of the fight and fcent o f the animal. Here it muft be obferved, that the rhinoceros’s eyes are funk into its head, and are but fmall when compared* to the bulk of its body; on which account, it is reported to fee but indiftinCtly, and that only ftrait forwards. But to make amends for this deficiency in fight, its organs o f fmelling and hearing are fo much the more acute ; at the leaft noife, therefore, more than ufual, this creature, taking the alarm and pricking up its ears, ftands clapping with them and liftening. Above all things one muft take Jcare, even when one is at a great diftance, not to get to the windward of it; for in that cafe, it feldom fails direCtly to follow the fcent,. and attack the objeCt of its purfuit, as it was very near doing by Mr. Im m -e l m a n . • >This gentleman, V o l . II. q having
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