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as any of the species can be obtained, the musk bag should 

 foe removed, as, should it be permitted to remain with the 

 skin, the Musk vvill soon be absorbed, which, though it will 

 contribute to preserve the skin from the attacks of insects^ 

 the perfume will be so strong as to be quite offensive. 



3. Cervus. Stag, //om^ annual, solid, branched, the tips 



thicker and covered with a downy skin; lower /row^ 

 teeth eight ; tusks wanting, or solitary in the upper 

 jaw. 



The Animals called Deer, contribute largely to the com- 

 fort of Man, all the species are useable as food, and the 

 skins and horns are convertibis into various useful purposes ; 

 they are natives of mountainous and ;^'oody situations ; seve- 

 ral of the species are easily domesticated ; their focdisgrass^ 

 the you'ig shoots, branches, and bark of trees, also Mosses 

 and Lich< ns. They are found in countries in the extremes 

 of heat and cold. 



4. Cameleopardalis . Giraffe. liorn-liJce projections twoj 



simple, covered with skin ; lower front teeth eighty 

 broad, thin, the outer one on each side deeply bilobate* 



The best account we have of this gigantic Animal, is in the 

 travels of Mons. Ive Vaillant, who found it in the interior of 

 Southern Africa, it is the tallest of all known Quadru- 

 peds, individuals having been seen, measuring seventeen 

 feet in hpight. Its pace is an awkward amble, but it is 

 so exceedingly quick, as easily to outrun the fleetest horse | 

 it is very shy, and is amongst the rarest quadrupeds. It feeds 

 on grass, and the leaves and shoots of the different species of 

 Mi mosa^ 60 abundant in the forests of Africa. 



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