Class I. ASS. 



hair of the mane is of ufe in making wigs ; of the 

 tail in making the bottoms of chairs, floor-cloths, 

 and cords ; and to the angler in making lines. 



Afmus, Rail Jyn, quad. 6t,. Equus afinus. Lin.JyJf. loo. 2, Ass. 



G^n. quad. 5. Eq. caudae extremitate fetofa 

 Klein, quad. 6. cruce nigra fuper humeros. 



De Buffon iv. 377. Faun. Suec. 35 *. 



Equusauriculislongisi^accidis, Br. Zool. 5. Syn. quad. No. 3. 

 jubabrevi. Brijfon quad. 70. 



Brit. Afyn, fam. Afen Germ. Efel 



Fren. L'Ane, /. L'AnefTe Dut. Eezel 



Ital. Afino, Miccio. /. Miccia Sived. Afna 



Span. Afno, Borrico. /. Borrica Dan. Afen, Efel. 

 ^Port. Afno, Burro./. Afna, Burra 



THIS animal, tho' now fo common in all parts 

 of thefe iflands, was entirely loft among us 

 during the reign of queen E/fz^to^ ; HoUing/hedj 

 informing us that in his time, " our lande didyeelde 

 no ajjes.'^ But we are not to fuppofe fo ufeful an 

 animal was unknown in thefe kingdoms before 

 that period; for mention is made of them fo early 

 as the time of king J Ethelred^ above four hundred 



* Habitat in magnatutn pradiis rarius. Faun. Suec. 35. edit, 

 1746. We imagine that iince that time the fpecies is there 

 extinft, for Linnaeus has quite omitted it in the laft edition of 

 the Fauna Suecica. 



t 109. 



J When the price of a mule or young afs was 12 s. Chron. 

 prccio/umj 51. 



years 



13 



