EFFECTS OF EMASCULATION. 



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The dam however was furnished with very formidable ones, 

 which we lifted up (for they fold down when not used) and cut 

 them off with the point of our scissars. 



There was little room to suppose that this brood had ever been 

 in the open air before ; and that they were taken in for refuge, 

 at the mouth of the dam, when she perceived that danger was 

 approaching ; because then probably we should have found them 

 somewhere in the neck, and not in the abdomen. 



LETTER XXXII. To THE HON. DAINES BARRINGTON. 



CASTRATION has a strange effect : it emasculates both man, 

 beast, and bird, and brings them to a near resemblance of the 

 other fitex. 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 



Barrow-hogs have also small tusks 



hover chickens like hens, 

 like sows.* 



its enemy's chief aim is at the back of its neck. On the same principle, we observe thrushes and 

 the other larger dentirostral birds, which feed readily on bees and wasps, invariably compress the 

 veuom out of the abdomen of the insect before swallowing it. ED. 



* An emasculate lion in the Surrey Zoological Gardens is thus as maneless as an ordinary 

 female. ED. 



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