THE MUSK-OX. 
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the bison and the musk-ox of regions bor- 
'^ering on the arctic circle ; and beneath the 
^'Juator, and within the tropics, in the camel 
^•^d the gnu of Africa, and in the buffalo and 
bull ofHindostan. In the more tempe- 
'"ate regions this kind of excrescence is com- 
Paratively rare. 
On the great staircase of the British Mu- 
is a stuffed specimen of the musk-ox. 
'The animal to which this skin belonged, was 
sliot by some of the companions of Captain 
^^rry, in one of his expeditions to the Polar 
; and it was presented by the Lords of 
Admiralty to the Museum. 
The adaptation of the structure of this ani- 
to the frozen regions which he inhabits, 
^^ers one of the most striking illustrations of 
^^sign with which the natural world abounds. 
the shortness of his limbs he is less 
f^Posed to the snow-storms and the cold than 
the trunk were more elevated ; and by the 
