OF SELBORNE. 7 



because then probably we should have 

 found them somewhere in the neck, and 

 not in the abdomen. 



LETTER XXXH. 



TO THE SAME. 



Castration has a strange effect : it emas- 

 culates both man, beast, and bird, and 

 brings them to a near resemblance of the 

 other sex. Thus eunuchs have smooth un- 

 muscular arms, thighs, and legs ; and broad 

 hips, and beardless chins, and squeaking 

 voices. Gelt-stags and bucks have horn- 

 less heads, like hinds and does. Thus we- 

 thers 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 



