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head there was a tuft of ere6l hairs ; and, between 
each eye and the nostrils, a cavity filled with 
a yellowish humour, which was oily and viscid^ 
and became black and hard on being exposed 
to the air. This substance, the odour of which 
participates both of castor and musk, renews 
successively after the cavities are emptied. I 
was assured, that the cavities had no commu- 
nication w^ith the eyes ; and, that the thick 
humour they contained was different from that 
which is collefted in the large angle of the eyes 
of Stags, and several other animals.'* 
Though," resumes Buffon-, this descrip- 
tion of Dr. Grimm be incompleat, he never- 
theless points out two charadlers so remarkable, 
that we easily recognised a head of a Senegal 
animal, sent us by M. Adanson, to belong to 
the Grimm : the first is, an enormous cavity 
below each eye, whicli penetrates so deep as 
to leave only a thin plate of bone between each 
cavity and the partition of the nose ; tlie second 
is, a bushy tuft of hair, refie£led backw.^rd, 
on the top of the head. • These chara6ters suf- 
ficiently distinguisii t'le Grimm from all the 
other Goats or Gaz'riles. It has, however, a 
resemblance 
