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called Vurro, and the (he-afs Vurra, which is 

 read as Burro and Burra. Burrico is the dimi- 

 nutive of this word, and denotes a little ais, 

 whence the Swediili name Borka is derived. 

 They are lean, and afh-coloured, but grow 

 blackiih after being fhorn. They are fed like 

 horfes with cut-draw, but they likewife con- 

 rent themfelves with what they find in the 

 ftreets or road. When they come to marker, 

 their difagrceabie braying even drowns the 

 noife of the crowd. They are ufed to all forts 

 of work, except drawing a cart, which is ne- 

 ver done but on the fea-fhore, from whence 

 they carry ftones to town : fand, draw, flreet- 

 dirt, in fhort every thing that is to be removed 

 From one place to another, is loaded upon the 

 backs of affes in panniers, made of mats, 

 and open at top. But if they carry water or 

 milk, they have faddies made of oaken planks, 

 on which the caiks are laid on bodi I 

 When you have affes, you want no brid'ey 

 to them ; for as foon as the afs-driver cries 

 out Arc or Araci, all thofe which have flrayed 

 out of the road turn in again. Many hun- 

 dreds of thefe animals were at rhe country-gate 

 of Cadiz, whither they brought fand to make 

 the ground even on the outfide of the ditches, 

 hot to mention all thofe which are to be met 

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