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 met with in Abyssinia. Among these, he has very accurately described the two-horned rhinoceros, which appears to be peculiar to Africa; and he mentions, that the Ethiopians called it in their own dialect, or aru e hareese, aspirating the second alpha, and adding to it the , or reese; that by was expressed the generic term of wild beast  and that the epithet , was subjoined, on account of the furrowed shape of the nostrils, together with that of the skin. Now it is very remarkable, that the name of this animal, used throughout Abyssinia at the present day, is precisely similar to that given by Cosmas. In the Geez character it is written Arwê hàris, and it is pronounced with a strong aspirate on the "ha," and a slight one, peculiar to the language, after the final syllable, as I have remarked in a copy of Ludolf's History, which I took