NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description, &c. 



CHAP. VIII. 



" The gentle timid musk, when close pursued, 

 Bounds o'er the excavations of the rocks 

 With speed incredible j and soon he leaves 

 The panting dogs behind." 



THOMAS, 



THE MUSK. 



VARIOUS accounts of this quadruped have 

 been given by naturalists and travellers, who 

 seem to have noticed it rather for the perfume 

 which it produces than with respect to its nature 

 and qualities. 



The musk of Thibet is rather more than two 

 feet in height at the shoulder, and its length 

 from the head to the tail, is about three feet. 

 The ears are somewhat large, the neck thick, and 

 the hair on the whole body long, upright, and 

 thick set. Each hair is undulated, the tip ferru- 

 ginous, the middle black, and the bottom cinere- 

 ous. The limbs are very slender, and of a dull 



