57& c ?- 3e Hijlory of ANIMALS. 
thefe hairs are thicker than in any other known animal, and are variegated from the 
bafe to the extremity with diftindt fpaces of brown and white : thofe on the head and 
legs, indeed, are folely and uniformly brown, and thofe on the belly, and under the 
tail, white; and thefe, as well as thofe on the back, are not flraight, but curled or 
waved, with two or three undulations. 
On each fide of" the lower jaw, near the angle of the mouth, there Hands a tuft' of 
fhort and rigid hairs j theie are all of the lame length, and thefe tufts of them have a 
very Angular appearance. The veffel or bag in which the perfume, called mulk, is 
contained, is three inches long, and two broad, and hangs under the belly, protubera¬ 
ting near three quarters of an inch beyond the furface. 
This is a native of the Eafl. All the writers on quadrupeds have defcribed it under 
the name of Mofchus, Animal Mofchiferum, Capra Mofchifera, and Cervus Mof- 
chiferus. 
CERVUS. 
T H E horns of the Cervus are folid, divaricated, and deciduous; they are hairy 
at firft, but afterwards fmooth : the canine teeth of the upper jaw are finele and 
remote. 
Cervus cornubus fimplkijfimts , pedibus atiticis longiffmis. 
7 "he Cervus , with the Jlmple horns , and the fore-legs very 
long . 
This is one of the moll extraordinary animals in the world. Authors have been 
Arangely puzzled among what others to arrange it j fome have made it a camel, others 
a Iheep, and the generality have called it neither the one nor the other, but an animal 
fui generis : the horns differ extreamly in form from thofe of the generality of the 
flag-kind, but it is evidently of that genus, nor is there any neceffity to eftablifli the 
palmated figure of the horns, as one of the charadters of it. 
It is at once one of the moll beautiful and alfonilhing creatures in the world ; when 
it Hands eredt, it meafures to the head not lefs than fixteen feet from the ground, and 
from the front of the nofe to the tail is eighteen feet; this vaft height and length, 
however, are, in a great meafure, owing to the length of the neck, which is enor¬ 
mous, beyond that of all other animals, for the body is very fmall, in proportion, and 
efpecially at the hinder part is but low. 
The head is of the form of that of the common deer, but it is much fmaller, in pro¬ 
portion : the eyes are large and prominent; the ears very large and patulous" and the 
horns fimple, very fhort, and obtufe : the neck is fiender j though fo monflroufly 
long, it carries it ufually eredt and ftraight, and the hinder part of it is ornamented 
with a very elegant mane, which flows gracefully in every diredtion about the neck. 
The body is not very bulky, but it is rounded and fhort: the bread is broad ; the 
hinder part fmall, and as it were difproportioned: the tail hangs down to the hams, 
and is befet with hairs as ftiff and thick as thofe of a horfe’s tail. 
The proportion of the legs is another extream Angularity in this creature : the ante¬ 
rior pair are very long ; the hinder ones fo fhort, that the body is carried in fo oblique 
a diredtion, that the creature feems rifing into an eredt poflure. Nature has not formed 
it for eating grafs, for it is with great difficulty that it can get it’s-head to the ground, 
as it Hands j it naturally feeds on the leaves and young fhoots of trees: the whole 
body is covered with a fur, compofed of thick hairs of a moderate length, and it is 
fpotted with black, and a very deep brown on a light ground, in the manner of the 
panther. 
