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A DESCRIPTION OF 
THE GIRAFFE, OR CAMELOPARD. 
( Camelopardis Giraffa.) 
THE head is the most beautiful part of the Giraffe ; it is 
small, and the eyes are large, brilliant, and very full. Be- 
tween the eyes, and above the nose, is a swelling very pro- 
minent and well-defined. This prominence is not a fleshy 
excrescence, but an enlargement of the bony substance ; 
and it seems to be similar to the two little lumps, or horns 
with which the top of the head is armed, and which, 
being about three inches in length, spring on each side of 
the head, just above the ears, and are covered with a 
thick tuft of stiff upright hairs. The neck is remarkably 
