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he puts on a wide jacket, cr Caffaquilla, and 

 wears neither coat nor boots, though both would 

 be very neceffary. He makes ufe of wooden 

 flirrups, which have fome likenefs to a fmooth- 

 ing-iron without a cover ; he puts his feet into 

 them, and they not only ferve as a fupport to 

 him, but likewife as a cafe for his {hoes, to 

 keep off the dirt. 



Mules (Equus afinus mulus Linn.), called 

 Mulo and Mala by the Spaniards, draw their 

 carriages, but they move very fiowly. Their 

 coaches have no feat for the coachman, fo he 

 is forced to ride on one of the mules. She- 

 mules do not propagate their fpecies, at lead 

 fuch inftances are very fcarce. They are the 

 offspring of a mare and an he-afs, or of a 

 mare and a mule. The common people be- 

 lieve that the flerility of the fhe-mule is in 

 confequence of a curie laid upon it by the 

 Virgin Mary at the birth of our Saviour, be- 

 caufe it had eaten the hay which the ox had 

 collected together. Their common food is 

 cut-flraw with corn. 



Tke afs (Equus afinus) is lefs than the leaft 

 horfe, and is X'^ry common in Spain, both in 

 towns and in the country. The he-afs is 



called 



