Edwardsville Spectator

The Unicorn.—In the forty-seventh number of that invaluable work, the Quarterly Review, is an interesting article in relation to the Snowy Range of the Himalaya mountains—forming that stupendous buttress, which supports on the South the elevated Table Land of Central Asia. The article of which we speak, is a review of a tour through a part of these mountains, to the source of the rivers Junna and Ganges. In the course of the review, the writer introduces a letter from a British officer commanding in the hilly country east of Nepaul, to the Marquis of Hastings, stating that the Unicorn, so long considered as a fabulous animal, actually exists at this moment in the interior of Thibet, where it is well known to the inhabitants. The description of the animal corresponds exactly with the Unicorn of the ancients. The hoofs are divided, and the size that of a horse from twelve to thirteen hands high; fierce and extreinely wild; seldom, if ever, caught alive, but frequently shot; and that the flesh is used for food. The person who gave the information to the Author of the letter (Major Latter,) has repeatedly seen these animals, and eaten the flesh of them. They go together in herds, like wild buffaloes. The drawing accompanying the letter shows some resemblance to a horse but has cloven hoofs, a long curved horn growing out of the forehead, and a boar shaped tail. From its herding together, observes the reviewer, as the unicorn of the scriptures is said to do, as well as from the rest of the description, it is evident that it cannot be the rhinoceros, which is a solitary animal.

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