tent himself with despatching the barge to prosecute the further search, while he returned to Kotzebue Sound. The barge proceeding to the north-eastward succeeded in exploring the line of the coast as far as point Barrow, 126 miles beyond Icy Cape; and the crew hav-ed the rendezvous this time by the 5th of August; still ing erected a post for Captain Franklin returned to the ship.

"It is certain that some Rhinoceroses have but one horn on the nose, and others two. In the two-horned Rhinoceros, one of the horns is smaller than the other, and is situated above it. When the animal is quiescent these horns are loose, but they become fixed when it is irritated. There are single horns of three feet and a half, and perhaps of more than four feet in length. Commonly, these horns are brown, or olive colour; yet some are gray, and even white. They have only a small concavity, in form of a cup, at their basis, by which they are fastened to the skin of the nose; the remaining part of the horn is solid, and very hard. It is with this weapon that the Rhinoceros is said to attack, and sometimes to wound mortally, the largest elephants, whose long legs give to the Rhinoceros, who has them much shorter, an opportunity of striking them with his horn under the belly, where the skin is tender and more penetrable; but when he misses the first blow, the elephant throws him on the ground, and kills him.

from that sagacious animal, in his natural faculties, "This Rhinoceros when he was two years old was and his intelligence; having received from Nature not much higher than a young cow who has not yet ⚫ merely what she grants in common to all animals; de-borne young; but his body was very long, and very prived of all feeling in the skin, having no organ thick. The tongue of this young Rhinoceros was soft, answing the purpose of hands, nor distinct for the like that of a calf; his eyes had no vivacity; they were sense of feeling, he has nothing instead of a trunk like those of a hog in form, and were placed very low; but a moveable upper lip, in which centres all his dex- that is, nearer the opening of the nostrils. terity. He is superior to other animals only in "Mr. Parsons says, that he has observed a very parstrength, size, and the offensive weapon which he car- ticular quality in this animal; he hearkened with a sort ries upon his nose, and which is peculiar to him. This of continual attention to any noise; so that, if he was weapon is a very hard horn, solid throughout, and even sleepy, employed in eating, or in satisfying other placed more advantageously than the horns of ru- urgent wants, he started instantly, raised up his head, minating animals; these only protect the superior and gave attention till the noise had ceased. parts of the head and neck, whilst the horn of the Rhinoceros defends all the exterior parts of the snout, and preserves the muzzle, the mouth, and the face from insult; so that the tiger attacks more readily the Elephant, in seizing his trunk, than the Rhinoceros, which he cannot attack in front without running the danger of being killed, for the body and limbs are covered with an impenetrable skin; and this animal | fears neither the claws of the tiger nor the lion, nor even the fire and weapons of the huntsman; his skin is a dark leather, of the same colour, but thicker and harder than that of the elephant; he does not feel the sting of flies; he cannot contract his skin; it is only folded by large wrinkles on the neck, the shoulders, and the buttocks, to facilitate the motions of the legs, which are massive, and terminate in large feet, armed with three great claws. The skin of the two-horned Rhinoceros is much more easily penetrable than that of the single-horned. He has the head larger in proportion than the elephant, but the eyes still smaller, which he never opens entirely, and they are so situated that the animal can see only what is in a direct line before him. The upper jaw projects above the lower, and the upper lip has a motion, and may be lengthened six or seven inches; it is terminated by a sharp edge, which enables this animal, with more facility than other quadrupeds, to gather branches and grass, and to divide them into handfuls, as the elephant does with his trunk. This muscular and flexible lip is a sort of trunk very incomplete, but which is equally calculated for strength and dexterity. Instead of those long ivory teeth which form the tusks of the elephant, the "The Rhinoceros, without being ferocious or carniv-. Rhinoceros has his powerful horn, and two strong in-orous, or even very wild, is nevertheless untameable. cisive teeth in each jaw. These incisive teeth, which He is of the nature of a hog, blunt and grunting, withthe elephant has not, are placed at a great distance out intellect, without sentiment, and without tractablefrom each other in the jaws of the Rhinoceros. He ness. These animals are also, like the hog, very much has, besides these, twenty-four smaller teeth, six on inclined to wallow in the mire; they like damp and each side of each jaw. His ears are always erect; marshy places, and seldom leave the banks of rivers. they are, for the form, like those of a hog, only they They are found in Asia and Africa, in Bengal, Siam, are larger in proportion to his body; they are the only Laos, in the Mogul dominions, in Sumatra, in Java. hairy parts of it. The end of the tail is like that of in Abyssinia, and about the Cape of Good Hope. the elephant, furnished with a tuft of large bristles, But in general, the species is not so numerous, or very hard and very solid. Huge and seemingly un- so universally spread, as that of the elephant. The wieldy as the Rhinoceros is, he has the power of run- female brings forth but one young, and at a great ning with y great swiftness. distance of time. In the first month, the Rhinoceros is not much bigger than a large dog; he has not, when first brought forth, the horn on the nose, although the rudiment of it is seen in the fœtus. When he is two years old, this horn is only an inch long; and in his sixth year, it is about ten inches; and as some of these horns have been seen very near four feet long, it seems they grow till his middle age, and perhaps during the whole life of the animal, which must be long, since the Rhinoceros described by Mr. Parsons was not come to half his growth when he was two years old; which makes it probable that this animal lives, like a man, seventy or eighty years.

The Rhinoceros which arrived in London in 1739 had been sent from Bengal. Although he was young, (b..ng but two years old,) the expenses of his food and his voyage amounted to near one thousand pounds sterling; he was fed with rice, sugar, and hay They gave him daily seven pounds of rice, mixed with three pounds of sugar; which they divided into three parts. He had also a great quantity of hay and green grass, to which he gave the preference. His drink was nothing but water, of which he drank a great quantity at once. He was of a quiet disposition, and let his manager touch him on all the parts of his body. He grew unruly when he was struck or was hungry; and in both cases he could not be appeased without giving him something to eat. When he was angry, he leaped forward with impetuosity to a great height, beating furiously the walls with his head; which he did with a prodigious quickness, notwithstanding his heavy

appearance.

"The horn of the Rhinoceros is more valued by the Indians than the ivory of the elephant; not so much on account of the matter, of which they make several works with the chisel, as for its substance, to which they attribute diverse virtues and medicinal properties. The white ones, as the most rare, are also those which they value most. Cups made of this horn are used to drink out of by many of the Indian princes, under the erroneous idea that when any poisonous fluid is put into them, the liquor will ferment, and run over the top.

"Without being useful, as the elephant, the Rhinoceros is very hurtful, by the prodigious devastation which he makes in the fields. The skin is the most valuable thing of this animal. His flesh is excellent, according to the taste of Indians and Negroes. ben says, he has often eaten it with great pleasure

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His skin makes the best and hardest leather in the dodotti BIOGRAPHY." world; and not only his horn, but all the other parts he has bebel of his body, and even his blood, his urine, his ex-lo tamtej od Intistes all Tina sin e crements, are esteemed as antidotes against poison, or non a remedy against several diseases; probably, however, bewon all those virtues are imaginary.

"The Rhinoceros feeds upon herbs, thistles, prickles, b shrubs, and he prefers this wild food to the sweet pas-dosao ture of the verdant meadows; he is very fond of sugarcanes, and eats all sorts of corn. Having no taste whatever for flesh, he does not molest small animals, neither fears the large ones, living in peace with them all, even with the tiger, who often accompanies him, without daring attack him: I doubt, therefore, whether the battles betwixt the elephant and the Rhinoceros have any foundation; they must, however, seldom happen, since there is no motive for war on either side; and, besides, no sort of antipathy has been observed between these animals. Some have even been seen in captivity, living quietly together, without giv-boog to esi ing offence or provocation to each other.

"The Rhinoceroses do not herd together, nor march in troops, like the elephant; they are wilder, and more solitary, and perhaps more difficult to be hunted and subdued; they never attack men unless provoked; but then they become furious, and are very formidable: the steel of Damascus, the scimitars of Japan, cannot make an incision in his skin; the darts and lances cannot pierce him through: his skin even resists the balls of the musket; those of lead become flat upon his leather, and the iron ingots cannot penetrate through it: the only places absolutely penetrable in his body armed with a cuirass, are the belly, the eyes, and round the ears; so that huntsmen, instead of attacking this animal standing, follow him at a distance by his track, and wait to approach him at a time that he sleeps or rests himself. There is in the King of France's cabinet a fœtus of a Rhinoceros, which was sent from the island of Java. It was said, in a memorial which accompanied this present, that twenty-eight huntsmen had assembled to attack its mother; they had followed far off for some days, one or two men walking now and then before, to reconnoitre the position of the animal. By these means they surprised her when she was asleep, and came so near in silence, that they discharged all at once their twenty-eight guns into the lower parts of her belly.

"We have seen that this animal has a good ear; it is also affirmed that he has the sense of smelling in perfection; but it is pretended he has not a good eye, and sees only before him: that his eyes are so small, and placed so low, and so obliquely, and have so little vivacity and motion, that this fact needs no other confirmation. His voice, when he is calm, resembles the grunting of a hog; and when he is angry, his sharp cries are heard at a great distance. Though he lives upon vegetables, he does not ruminate; thus it is probable, that, like the elephant, he has but one stomach, and very large bowels, which supply the office of the paunch. His consumption, though very great, is not comparable to that of the elephant; and it appears, by the thickness of his skin, that he loses less than the elephant by his perspiration."

In the "Golden Legend" he is called St. Rock; and it relates that when infected by the pestilence, and lacking bread in the forest, a hound belonging to one Gotard daily took bread away from his master's board, and bare it to Rock, whom Gotard thereby discovered, and visited, and administered to his necessities; wherefore the hound came no more; and Rock was healed by revelation of an angel; and with touching and blessing he cured the diseased in the hospital, and healed all the sick in the city of Placentia. Being imprisoned, and about to die, he prayed that he might live three days longer in contemplation of the Passion, which was granted him; and on the third day an angel came to him, saying, "O! Rock, God sendeth me for thy soul; what thou now desirest thou shouldst ask." Then St. Rock implored that whoever prayed to him after death might be delivered from pestilence; and then he died. And anon an angel brought from heaven a table whereon was divinely written, in letters of gold, that it was granted-"That who that calleth to Saynte Rock mekely, he shall not be hurte with ony hurte of pestylence;" and the angel laid the table under Rock's head; and the people of the city It is supposed by some that the Rhinoceros is the buried St. Rock solemnly, and he was canonized by unicorn of the scriptures. It is generally admitted the pope gloriously. His life in the "Golden Le that the various qualities therein assigned to that ani- gend" ends thus: "The feest of Saynte Rocke is almal are combined in the Rhinoceros, viz. rage, untame-waye holden on the morowe after the daye of the asableness, and strength. The Rhinoceros, likewise, has a single horn, thus corresponding in this particular. There is, however, as has been seen, a species of this animal which has two horns; and it appears that the unicorn sometimes had two:-"His horns are like the horns of a unicorn." We leave the subject for each one to judge for himself, remarking as we leave it, that there have been various opinions as to the unicorn, some supposing it to be the wild goat, others the wild bull, others again the wild ass, and so on.

+ Fosbroke's Diet. of Antiq

The phrase, "sound as a roach," may have been de- | ces against such an Association, and others of a simirived from familiarity with the legend and attributes lar description, ought to be spurned from the door of of this saint. He is esteemed the patron saint of all every decent citizen. And the individual who pub afflicted with the plague, a disease of common occur- lishes such a paper, thereby encouraging vice, is a rence in England when streets were narrow, and monster unworthy of the name he assumes-unworwithout sewers, houses without boarded floors, and thy of the name of Man. In conclusion, we have only our ancestors without linen. They believed that the to caution the community that they look well to the miraculous interposition of St. Roche could make them moral bearing of these penny dailies before subscribing as "sound" as himself. for them, instead of merely taking into consideration their price.

Egypt, as we nave seen, was settled by Mizraim, the son of Ham. Upon his death, this country was divided into three kingdoms, over which reigned three of his sons. Ananim or Anan was king of Lower Egypt or after giving another dynasty of Thinite kings. This Manetho gives a dynasty of nine Memphite kings, the Delta; Naphtuhim or Naph, of the parts near and dynasty of Memphite kings he denominates the third about Memphis; Pathrusim or Pathrus, of the country of Thebais. From these individuals those countries dynasty, as if they succeeded the second; whereas it derived their names. Lower Egypt was denominated is evident that they were contemporaneous with the Zoan or Zanan, or more properly Tanan; the king-first, reigning over a different portion of Egypt at the same time. The following is the dynasty under condom of Memphis was called the land of Noph or Naph; sideration. and the kingdom of Thebais, the land of Pathrus or Pathros.