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Muscovy duck or the Musk duck, so called from its musky 

 smell, iv. 4-21. 



Music, said by the ancients to have been invented from the 

 blows of different hammers on an anvil ; from the remains 

 of ancient music, collected by Meibomius, one might sup- 

 pose nothing powerful in what is lost; in all countries 

 where music is in its infancy, the half-tones are rejected ; 

 many barbarous nations have their instruments of music, 

 and the proportion between their notes is the same as in 

 ours; all countries pleased with music, and where they 

 have not skill to produce harmony, they substitute noise ; 

 its effects, the ancients give us many strange instances of 

 them upon men and animals ; and the moderns likewise ; 

 madness cured by it ; remarkable instance in Henry IV. of 

 Denmark ; it is now well known that the stories of the bite 

 of the tarantula, and its cure by music, are all deceptions ; 

 instance of it ; fishes are allured by music ; horses and cows 

 likewise, ii. 36. The elephant appears delighted with 

 music, iii. 336. Father Kircher has set the voices of some 

 birds to music, iv. 118. 



Musk, among the numerous medicines procurable from qua- 

 drupeds, none, except the musk and hartshorn, have pre- 

 served a degree of reputation, ii. 280. Doubt whether the 

 animal producing it be a hog, an ox, a goat, or a deer ; no 

 animal so justly the reproach of natural historians as that 

 which bears the musk ; it has been variously described, and 

 is known very imperfectly ; the description given by Grew ; 

 formerly in high request as a perfume ; has for more than a 

 century been imported from the East ; is a dusky reddish 

 substance, like coagulated blood ; a grain of it perfumes a 

 whole room ; its odour continues for days without diminu- 

 tion, and no substance known has a stronger or more per- 

 manent smell ; in larger quantity it continues for years, 

 and scarce wasted in weight, although it has filled the at- 

 mosphere to a great distance with its parts ; the bags of 

 musk from abroad supposed to belong to some other ani- 

 mal, or taken from some part of the same, filled with its 

 blood and enough of the perfume to impregnate the rest ; 

 it comes from China, Tonquin, Bengal, and often from 

 Muscovy ; that of Thibet reckoned the best, and of Mus- 

 covy the worst, 295, &c. 



Musk-ox, an account of, ii. 249. 



Musk-rat, three distinctions of it, iii. 185. It is called stinkard 

 by the savages of Canada, 187. 



Musky smell does not make the characteristic marks of any 

 kind of animals, ii. 24-3. 



Musmon, or Moufflon, resembles a ram, its description, ii. 264. 



Myoides, a broad thin skin covering the whole upper fore- 

 part of the body, its effect on women with child, i. 430. 



