THE TIBETIAN MUSK. 



when frelh, is fo penetrating as to be almoft infupportable in a large 

 quantity. It is much employed in perfumery, and alfo in medicine, where 

 it adls as a powerful ftimulant and antifpafmodic. The mufk of Tibet is 

 more efteemed than that of any other country. The dearnefs of this drug 

 renders it very liable to adulteration. The flem of the male animal is 

 greatly infecled with the odour, efpecially during the rutting feafon. The 

 hunters cut off the bag as foon as taken, otherwife the flelh would not be 

 eatable. 



