80 POPULAR SCRIPTURE ZOOLOGY.

tranquil life, lying on the marshy banks of rivers and lakes,
and bathing in their waters. There-are five or six species.
Rhinoceros bicornis, found in various parts of Africa, has, as
its name imports, two horns ; the skin, instead of the regular
armour-like folds of the preceding species, Rhinoceros wni-
cornis, has merely a slight wrinkle across the shoulders and
on the hinder parts. Another is met with in Java, with one
horn; a fourth in Sumatra, with two; and one or more
species in Africa, besides the 2. dicornis, one variety found
in southern Africa being white.

The original word used in Job and elsewhere is “ Reem,”
rendered in the Septuagint “ one-horned,” equivalent to our
“ unicorn,” buat there is nothing in the Hebrew word which
implies that the “Reem” had only one horn; and in the
passage in Deuteronomy, ch. xxxiii., “ His horns are like the
horns of the reem,” the word is singular, not plural, and
should have been “unicorn,” not “unicorns,” as in our
version, but it would have been inconsistent to have said
“the horns of the unicorn,” therefore the word was put in
the plural*, In other passages one horn is only mentioned,
as in Psalm xcii., “But thou wilt exalt, as the reem, my
horn :” this, however, is no evidence against the animal in

* Notes to the ‘ Pictorial Bible.’