Glass I. MULE. 



tion to its breakin'g, they might with fuccefs form 

 it for the faddle, the draught, or the burden. The 

 fize and ftrength of our breed is at prefent fo im- 

 proved by the importation of the Spanijh male 

 afTes, that we fhall foon have numbers that may 

 be adapted to each of thole ufes. Perfons of the 

 firft quality in Spain are drawn by them ; for one 

 of which (as Mr. Clarke informs us*) fifty or 

 fixty guineas is no uncommon price ; nor is it fur- 

 prizing, if we confider how far they excel the 

 horfe in draught, in a mountanous country ; the 

 mule being able to tread fecurely where the former 

 can hardly fland. 



This brief account may be clofed with the ge- 

 neral obfervation, that neither mules nor the fpu- 

 rious ofiTpring of any other animal generate any 

 farther : all thefe produftions may be looked on 

 as monfters j therefore nature, to preferve the ori-= 

 ginal fpecies of animals entire and pure, wifely 

 Hops, in inftance of deviation, the powers of pro- 

 pagation. 



* Letters on the Spanijh nation. 



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