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cend the higheft mountains, which are inacceffible to 
men ordogs. It is very timid, and has fuch a quick 
fenfe of hearing, as to difcover an enemy at a very 
great diftance. ‘The celebrated drug, called Myf, 
is produced from the male only, and is found ina bag 
about the fize of a hen’s egg, on the belly, which has 
two fmall crevices through which it paffes. This 
drug, when firit preffed out of the bag, appears like a 
brown fat matter ; but it is greatly adulterated by 
the hunters and dealers, in order to increafe its 
weight. Thefe animals are fo numerous, as to have at. 
forded Tavernier 7673 mufk bags,in one journey which 
he made of only three years. “Lhofe of Mufcovy are 
reckoned good, though thofe found in the ming dona of 
Tibet are moft valuable. The Ruffians and Tartars 
eat the flefh of the male, notwithitanding its {trong 
tafte. Mufk was formerly in. gre.t efteem asa per- 
fume ; but having been fince found of great utility in 
medicine, it is feldom ufed for any thing elfe. ‘Lhis 
animal is likewife found in the Brazils, in India, and 
in Guinea. 

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DROMEDARY. 
"Tats is the moft temperate of all animals ; but this 
difpofition arifes more from neceflity, than from choice 
or natural moderation. He is fo admirably formed 
to crofs the parched defarts, that he will travel eight 
days without being thurfty. “Hishard hoofsare particu- 
arly adapted to travel on thefands of his fiative wilds. 
They are the moft ufeful beafts of burthen in Arabia, 
none other being able to bear ‘their loads, or endure 
the want of drink fo long; to enablethem todo which, 
nature has provided them, with a fifth ftomach, which 
ferves as a fervoir, from whence they draw fufli- 
cient to quench their thirlt. Camels have been fome- 
times killed, in hopes of finding water to flake the 
parching thirft of the. traveller, ..They, are chiefly 
employed in aflifting the caravans; and.as the defarts. 
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