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The Mulk is an Afiatic animal, and is principally found amongft the 

 mountainous parts of Thibet, where it wanders amidft the higheft and coldeft 

 tradls, and amongft the pine-forefts of thofe regions. It is faid to be not 

 gregarious, but rather a folitary animal. It is of an extremely adive and 

 vigorous nature ; yet timid, and with difficulty tamed. It partakes in many 

 particulars of the habits of the deer tribe. The fpecies is faid to be ex- 

 tremely numerous in the regions above-mentioned, as may eafily be con- 

 ceived from the great quantity .of mufk which is imported from thence, 

 and dilperfed throughout Europe. 



To be particular in the defcription of that celebrated perfume, would 

 be to tell our readers what they are already acquainted with. It is well 

 known to be a fecretion of a peculiar nature, formed in a particular cyfl; 

 or receptacle, fituated^ under the lower part of the animal's belly. It is 

 when recent of a moft penetrating odor ; of a nightly tenacious or murly- 

 friable fubftance, and of a reddifli or ferruginous colour. 



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