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certain external features of the female (as is usual in these cases), yet the horn underneath 
the velvet was hard and solid like that of an ordinary stag, and not spongy, light, and porous, 
as is the case with most perruque beasts. Another curious point about this animal was the 
continuation of the supply of blood to the horn and the velvet, for the horn itself was quite 
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