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UNICORN

Volume 20 · 102 words · 1810 Edition

an animal famous among the ancients, and thought to be the fame with the rhinoceros.

Sparmann informs us, that the figure of the unicorn described by the ancients has been found delineated by the Nefe Hotentots on the plain surface of a rock in Cafraria; and therefore conjectures, that such an animal either does exist at present in the internal parts of Africa, or at least once did so. Father Lobo affirms that he has seen it. Mr Barrow in his Travels in Southern Africa, affords additional reason to believe in the existence of this curious animal.

UNICORN-Fish. See MONODON, CETOLOGY Index.