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DEKH. 
We next proceed to the Kumiiiants with horns, 
at the commencement of wliich, the large Deer, or 
the Elks and Stags, have been generally placed ; but 
their situation next to the diminutive Musks will ap- 
pear extraordinary, and not following that gradation 
of form tt'hich we have almost invariably perceiveci 
The true connection appears to be by means of the 
Guevi of Fred. Cuvier, and one or two of the small 
antelopes, which have in reality been confused and 
tlescribed as Musks, and which have the low crouch- 
ing form, and larger looking body, and almost re- 
semble the Peccaries. 
The horns in the true Deer have a form and 
generation accompanied with many remarkable pecu- 
liarities. In form, they are flat or piilmated, and of 
great size and weight, or they are nearly round, and 
branch into a number of projections, termed antlers. 
The substance is very compact, hard, and solid, and 
without any central support or core, as in those ru- 
minating animals witli wliich we are most familiar. 
In a great many, they are annually cast, and annually 
reproduced with great rapidity, and in all these tlie 
production[of the horn is intimately connected with 
the process of generation. The size of the horn also 
increases with the age of the animal, and divaricates 
into a greater . number of antlers. The deciduous 
horns, as far as can he yet ascertained, take place 
among all the Deer of the temperate countries ; but 
