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is an amphibious animal, of a gigantic bulk, inferior only to the Elephant; is found in large and rapid rivers; the Nile, the Gambia, and the great rivers on the South-Eat parts of Africa. The general dimenions of this animal are reported as follows; in length about 17 feet, circumference 15, height 7, legs 3, head 3½ feet long, and 9 round; tail hortih, eyes and ears mall; the latter pointed, covered on the inide with hair; the two tuks in the lower jaw lie nearly horizontal, and meaure about 27 inches long; their weight about 3½ pounds: thee tuks are highly prized by Dentits, for making fale teeth, not being o liable to turn yellow as ivory. The kin thinly interpered with trong hairs, or britles; is very rough, of a mud colour, and, when newly rien out of the water, the animal has a glittering or limy appearance.

This animal, unles inulted, is of a quiet dipoition; paing its time in wandering up and down the rivers, which it chiefly inhabits. Fih, as ome have reported, makes no part of its food; this it eeks at night on land, feeding on the gras, reeds, and boughs of trees which are in the neighbourhood of its abode. "The quantity of gras," ays Mr. Sparman, "which I have at different times oberved to have been conumed by one of thee animals, in pots where it has come over night to graze, is almot incredible." Indeed, conidering the bulk of its body, and the great ize of its tomachs (which are four), it certainly mut require great quantity of nutriment. When in the water, the Hippopotamus frequently ries to the top to take in air; it will uffer immerion about 30 or 40 minutes. Providence, in its univeral widom, has appointed the abode of this coloal animal in very ditant parts from the habitations of man, ele its great trength and revengeful nature mut produce much michief; of its trength, it has the credit of being able, with eae, to bite a man in two; and of its revengeful nature, it has been known to place itelf under a boat, and by riing up, overet it with ix men in. Moore, in his travels up the Gambia, relates a imilar diater: A boat going down the river, fell in with a herd of thee animals: "on being fired at," ays the Narrator, "before the flahing of the pan was well out of our eyes, being in the midt of them, one which we uppoed was wounded, flounced and kicked about the boat till he knocked a piece out of the bottom; and before we could reach hore, he unk right down." One of thee animals purued for everal hours a Hottentot, who found it very difficult to make his ecape; their activity when on land mut not, therefore, be calculated from the unwieldines of their appearance. In the water they wim with great vigour againt the tronget current, and frequently ink to the bottom, and walk as on land: they frequent alt water, but do not drink it; when angry, make a furious noie, between the grunt of a hog and the neighing of a hore, which, probably, fixed on it the name of Hippopotamus, which is Greek, and ignifies a river hore; its number of tomachs has certainly caued it to be called the ea cow.

A coniderable portion of a keleton of one was lately found in digging at Chatham, which has led a learned Gentleman to make ome ingenious queries concerning the antiquity of the earth, the climate of this country in former times, and to conclude this animal was once a native of England. The Hippopotamus is certainly the animal which is decribed in uch a figurative, yet correct, manner in the 40th chapter of Job.

The drawing for this ubject was taken from a tuffed kin in the Leverean Mueum, and is regarded as a jut figure of the animal, though not at full growth; the dimenions were 9 feet long, and 5½ high.