THE MUSK-OX. 
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ing fronij and entirely concealing, the 
tremely short tail, which are so contrived tha*' 
this shaggy veil, falling over and around thea 
faces, protects them from the mosquitoes? 
which are not less the plague of arctic thaa 
of tropical regions. M. Jeremie, a French 
officer stationed in Canada in the early pat*' 
of the eighteenth century, assures us that 
stockings may be made from the wool of th® 
musk-ox of finer quality than the finest of sil^ 
manufacture. 
The musk-ox is not so large as the smalles 
Scotch cattle. He climbs up precipices with 
great agility, and is hold and active. Lih® 
the bison, he has a decided antipathy to scat' | 
let colour, and expresses his irritation with 
conceivable violence. He resembles othc* 
arctic quadrupeds in the closeness of his fot® 
legs, and also in the dorsal hump, whi^^ 
seems to he a character peculiar to climate® 
of extreme heat and cold, being found equal ; 
