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THE THIBETIAN MUSK. 
to market, principally by blood being added. When 
first taken from the animal, the scent is extremely 
powerful, so much so as sometimes to be with diffi- 
culty supported by the person. This flavour be- 
comes mellowed through time, and by many is much 
esteemed as a perfume, which, indeed, is the princi- 
pal cause of its being collected : it was also occa- 
sionally used as a medicine. As a perfume, it is 
one of the most subtle, and a very small quantity 
will suffice, and, when once introduced, is extremely 
difficult to be destroyed. In addition to the em- 
ployment of a part of this animal as a luxury and 
medicine, the flesh is sometimes eaten, but is very 
strongly flavoured. A warm dress of the skins, with 
the fur preserved, is made for a winter clothing, and 
a soft and shining leather is prepared by another 
process. 
The other animals which have been placed with 
the true Musk, as congeneric, differ in several par- 
ticulars. The muzzle is very much elongated, and 
the accessory hoofs assume the form of adpressed 
conical claws. They are the most diminutive in size 
of all the ruminating animals, not exceeding the size 
of a hare. They inhabit the Indian islands, generally 
the thick woody copses, intermixed with rocks. It 
is possible these may, when better known, be placed 
in a subgenus of Moschus. We illustrate this form 
