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LETTER XXXII. 



To the same. 



ASTRATION has a strange effect : it emas- 

 culates both man, beast, and bird, and 

 brings them to a near resemblance of the 

 other sex. Thus eunuchs have smooth un- 

 muscular arms, thighs, and legs ; and broad 

 hips, and beardless chins, and squeaking 

 voices. Gelt stags and bucks have hornless 

 heads, like hinds and does. Thus wethers have small horns, 

 like ewes ; and oxen large bent horns, and hoarse voices when 

 they low, like cows : for bulls have short straight horns ; and 

 though they mutter and grumble in a deep tremendous tone, 

 yet they low in a shrill high key. Capons have small combs 

 and gills, and look pallid about the head like pullets ; they 

 also walk without any parade, and hover over chickens like 

 hens. Barrow-hogs have also small tusks like sows. 



