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from the rest of his fellows, and hides himself m 
solitudes and thickets, never venturing out to 
pasture, except by night. During this time, which 
most usually happens in the spring, the new horns 
are very painful, and have a quick sensibility ot 
any external impression. The flies, a. so, are ex- 
trernely troublesome to him. When the old horn 
is fallen off, the new does not begin immediately 
to appear ; but the bones of the skull are seen 
covered only with a transparent periosteum or 
skin, which, as anatomists teach us„ covers the 
bones of all animals. After a short time, how.*, 
ever, this skin begins to swell, and to form a 
soft tumour, which contains a great deal of blood, 
and which begins to be covered with a downy sub- 
stance that has the feel of velvet, and appears near- 
ly of the same colour with the rest of the animal's 
hair. This tumour every day buds forward from 
the point like the graft of a tree ; and, rising, by 
degrees from the head, shoots out the antlers on 
either side 3 so that in a few^days, in proportion as 
the animal is in condition, the whole head is com- 
pleted. However, as was said above, in the 
beginning, its consistence is very soft, and has a 
sort of bark, which is no more than a continua- 
tion of the integument of the skulh It is vel- 
veted and downy 3 and every where furnished with 
blood-vessels, that supply the growing horns with 
nourishment. As they creep along the sides of th$ 
branches, the print is marked over the whole sur- 
face; and the larger the blood-vessels, the deep- 
er these ma,rk( are found to be : from hence arises- 
the inequality of the surface of the deer's horns ; 
which, as we see, are furrowed all along the 
sides, the impressions diminishing towards the 
point, where the substance is as smooth and as 
solid as ivory. But it ought to be observed, that 
this substance, of which the horns are compose^ 
