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LETTER XXXII. 



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ASTRATION has a strange effect : it emasculates 

 both man, beast, and bird, and brings them to a 

 near resemblance of the other sex. Thus eunuchs 

 have smooth unmuscular 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 chickens like hens. Barrow-hogs have also small tusks 

 like sows. 



