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EARLESS HEDGEHOG. 
Magnus, the right eye of a Hedgehog, fried in 
oil, and kept in a brass vessel, imparts all its vir- 
tues to the oil, which, used as a collyrium or 
ointment for the eyes, produces such a clearness 
of vision as to enable a person to see as well by 
night as by day ! ! ! and Pliny affirms, that its gall, 
mixed with the brain of a bat, is a good depila- 
tory, or application for removing superfluous 
hair ! 
But, whatever virtues, either real or imaginary, 
may be supposed exist in other parts of the ani- 
mal, it is certain that its skin may be successfully 
used as a succedaneum for a clothes-brush, and 
was, in fact, applied to this purpose by the an- 
cients. 
We are also informed by the Count de Buffon, 
that it is usual in some countries to muzzle calves, 
when it becomes necessary to wean them, Avith 
the skin of the Hedgehog. 
EARLESS HEDGEHOG. 
Erinaceus Inauris. E. aurkulis nullis. Lin. Sysf, Nat., j), 75. 
Briss. Quadr. 184. 
Hedgehog without external ears. 
Erinaceus iVraericanus albus. Seh. mus. i. p. 78. ^. 49. 
Guiana Hedgehog. Pennant Quadr. 2.]). 237. 
This, on a general view, seems to be nothing 
more than a variety of the common Hedgehog; 
differing chiefly, according to Seba, in having 
the spines on the upper parts of the body shorter, 
