It is worthy of remark, that the horn of this quadruped is a truly formidable weapon, growing from the solid bone, and pointed so as to inflict the most fatal wounds. The elephant, the bear, and the buffalo, are obliged to strike transversely with their weapons; but the rhinoceros employs all his force with every blow; so that the tiger will more willingly attack any other animal of the forest, than one whose strength is so justly employed.There is another animal of this kind, named the double-horned rhinoceros, which differs from the preceeding animal in the appearance of its skin; which, instead of large and regularly-marked folds, resembling armour, has merely a slight wrinkle across the shoulders and on the hinder parts, with a few fainter wrinkles on the sides; so that, when compared with the common rhinoceros, it appears almost smooth. The principal distinction, however, consists in the nose being furnished with two horns, one of which is smaller than the other, and situated above it.

Of this animal, there are three different kinds, the brown bear of the Alps; the black bear of North America, which is smaller; and the great Greenland, or white bear. These however, are all probably of the same original, and principally owe their variations to food and climate; as they have all the same habitudes. Their voice is a sort of growl interrupted with rage; and they are equally carnivorous, treacherous, and cruel.

The brown bear is a solitary animal, inhabiting the most horrid chasms and dangerous precipices, and frequently choosing for its abode the hollow of some tree; there it

lives for some months in the winter without provisions, seeming to exist on the exuberance of its former flesh, which it had acquired in the summer. The female generally prepares a bed in the hollow of a rock, and brings forth in winter.

The black bears are common in Canada; and inhabit those trees which are hollow at the top; but when hunted, are forced from their retreats by setting fire to the tree; by which means the old one generally issues out first, and is shot by the hunters; and the young ones, as they descend, are caught in a noose, and are either kept, or killed for provision. Their hams and paws are considered a great delicacy.

The white, or Greenland bear, differs greatly both in figure and dimensions from those already mentioned; and though it preserves, in general, the external form of its more southern kindred, yet it grows to nearly three times the size. They principally live on fish, seals, and dead whales; they seldom remove far from the shore; sometimes, however, they are seen, on ice floats, several leagues at sea, and are often transported in this manner to Iceland; where they no sooner arrive than all the natives are in arms to receive them.

THE first peculiarity observable in this animal is the extreme length of its snout, which in some measure resembles that of the hog, but elongated to a certain degree; the upper jaw is an inch longer than the lower; and the nose turns up at the end. The tail is marked with rings of black, and the body is covered with a short fur. When it sleeps it rolls itself into a lump, and often remains immoveable for fourteen or fifteen hours together.

THE look of this animal is so piteous as to excite compassion; and is also accompanied with tears, that dissuade every one from injuring so wretched a being. It has three claws upon each foot, and a short tail. Its fur is long and coarse, somewhat resembling dried grass; the mouth extremely wide; the eyes dull and heavy; and the legs and feet set on so awkwardly, that a few paces often require a journey of a week. The legs indeed proceed from the body in such an oblique direction, that the sole of the foot seldom touches the ground. When, therefore, the animal is compelled to make a step forward, it scrapes on the back of the nails against the surface, and wheeling the limb circularly about, yet still touching the ground, it at length places its foot in a progressive position; the other three limbs are brought about with the same difficulty, and thus seldom moves above three feet in an hour. In fact, it seldom attempts to change its place but by constraint, or when impelled by the severest stings of hunger.

The sloth subsists entirely upon vegetable food, and, as it requires a considerable share of provision, it generally strips a tree of all its verdure in less than a fortnight. It then falls to devouring the bark, and thus in a short time, destroys the very source of its support. When this is the case, being unable to descend, it is obliged to drop from the branches to the ground; and after remaining some time torpid, from the violence of its fall, it prepares for a tedious, dangerous, and painful migration to some neighbouring tree, which is soon killed like the former. Its power of abstinence is very remarkable, and the strength of its feet so great, that whatever it seizes on, cannot possibly be freed from its claws.

The two-toed sloth differs from the preceding animal in having only two claws upon the fore feet; the snout also is longer, the fur very different, and the ribs more numerous; this having forty-six, while the other has but twenty-eight. Both, however, resemble each other in the general outlines of their figure, and their helpless and awkward formation. Their appetites and habitudes are also precisely the same.

THE height of this animal is, in general, about six feet, and the body is covered with dusky, or ash-coloured hair. It has a short head, small ears, and a long bending neck; and is rendered remarkable not only by the lumps on its back, but by large callosities at the bottom of the breast, on the knees, and on the inside of each leg. The feet are flat and tough, divided above, but not quite through; which formation enables the animal to traverse the oriental and sandy deserts, without being subject to chaps in the hoof.

In Arabia and other countries, where the camel is trained to useful purposes, it is considered as a sacred animal, without which, the natives could neither traffic, travel, nor subsist; its milk forms a considerable part of their nourishment; they clothe themselves with its hair, which is shed regularly once a year; and on the approach of enemies, they may, by mounting their camels, flee to the distance of a hundred miles in a single day. It must also

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be observed that these quadrupeds are so extremely temperate, and capable of such long abstinence, that in those vast deserts where the earth is every where dry and sandy-where there are neither beasts nor birds, neither insects nor vegetables, they post forward without requir ing either drink or pasture for five or six days together. This, however, partly results from the mode of bringing them up, and partly from the circumstance of their being furnished with an additional stomach, which serves as a reservoir, to hold a greater quantity of water than is needful for a present supply.

THIS animal, which may be considered as the camel of the new continent, is somewhat more than three feet high, and the neck is three feet long; the head is small and well proportioned, the eyes large, the ears about four inches long, and the tail small, and rather curved at the end. The body is covered with a kind of wool, which is short on the back, but long on the sides and belly: the colour is generally brown, but in some varieties it is black, and in others perfectly white.

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Though inferior to the camel in size, strength, and perseverance, the lama appears admirably suited for the indolent race of masters which it is obliged to serve. requires neither care nor expence in the attending or providing for its sustenance: it is supplied with a warm covering, and therefore does not require to be housed;