(. 33 ) 

 THE MUSK SHREW. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Two cutting teeth in each jaw, pointing fonvard. 

 Long flender nofe : fmall ears. 

 Five toes on each foot. 



Peunant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Glaucous Shrew, paler beneath, with Iharp-pointed fnout, and flefh-colored 

 tail and feet. 



The perfuming Shrew. 



Penn. Quadr. 2. p. 222. 



'T^HE powerfully diftufive and penetrating odors which proceed from many 

 "*■ animal and vegetable fubftances may be numbered amongft the miracles 

 of nature. Thus the well-known fubftance, called by the title of mulk, 

 which is a fecretion formed in a peculiar follicle, or cyft, lituated in the 

 lower part of the abdomen pf the Mofchus mofchiferus, or common mulk- 

 animal, is of a nature fo extraordinary as to communicate a ftrong and laft- 

 ing odor to fubftances which have been but flightly touched by it ; and the 

 experiments of Mr. Boyle have proved how large a fpace jnay be fcented by a 

 fingle grain. The fmell of that extraordinary drug, called Afa foetida, is too 

 familiarly known to be particularly infilled upon. The effluvia proceeding 

 from the Mephitic Weafel of America are of fo horrible a nature as to taint 

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