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Of the Pecora, or fleeced tribe. 



The Camel, 



AMELUS i. Topho dorfi unico, vertice gtandulojb. 



Camel us topho dorfi unico. L. S. N. 



This, properly fpeaking, is the Dromedary, of which great numbers have been 



lately imported into Jamaica ; but the people are as yetfo little acquainted with their 

 cufloms and manner of feeding, that they have been hitherto of little fervice there. 

 This creature has a gland in the pole of the neck, by the drynefs or moilrure of 

 which a man may judge of the Hate of its ftomach. It feeds there chiefly upon pin 



guins; but its moil: natural food is the boughs and tops of trees. It is a very patient 



and laborious eafy creature : the penis turns back between the hind legs, and dis- 

 charges the urine that wayj but they never make much at a time. 



The flefh of them is reckoned very tender and wholefome ; and the milk is 

 faid to be a great reflorative j confumptions being never known wherever it is ufed 

 for food, as it is by many on the coafts of Barbary. 



CERVUS I. Cornibus ramofis teretibus incurvis. L. S. N. 

 Cervus cornibus ramofis teretibus incurvis. Hill.Hift.Tab. 28. 



The red Deer. 



Thefe animals are frequently carried to Jamaica from North America, and kept by 

 many gentlemen in convenient inclofures; but they do not thrive well in that ifland. 



CAPRA 1. Cornibus carinatis arcuatis L. S, .N. The Nanny-goat. 



CAPRA 2. Cornibus erecfis uncinates, pedj-bus longioribus. 

 Capra cornibus ereclis uncinates, L. S. N. 



The Rupi-goat. 



Thefe are not, either of them, natives of Jamaica ; but the latter is often imported 



thither from the main, and Rubee-ijland ; and the other from many parts of Europe. 

 The milk of thefe animals is very pleaiant in all thofe warm countries, for k lofes that 

 rancid talle which it naturally has in Europe. A kid is generally thought as ^ood, if 

 not better than a lamb, and frequently fervedupat the tables of every rank of people. 



The baftard Ibex 



CAPRA 3. Cornibus nodofis in dorfum reclinatis. 



L. S. N. 



This fpecies feems to be a baftard fort of the Ibex- goat 

 kind in Jamaica, and efteemedthe beft by moft people. It was firft introduced there 

 by the Spaniards t and feems now naturalized in thefe parts. 



the moft common 



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Cornibus comprejfis lunatis. L. S. N 



The Sheep 



Thefe animals have been doubtlefs bred in Jamaica ever iince the time of the 



Spaniards , and thrive very we 

 rally very fm 



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gions, foon alters its appearances for 



y quarter of the iiland j but they are gene 

 ed from a cold climate to any of thofe fultry re 



year of 



ftead of wool it put 



of hair, like a goat, which may be probably owing to the opennefs of 

 pores, and the moifture with which the fkin is conftantly bedewed in thofe parts 



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Cornibus teretibus 



Thefe an 

 ry well 



Bos cornibus teretibus fie xis L. S. N 



d to? 



The Bull and Cow 



were firfi 



Spaniards: they thrive 



there, and may be feen wild in moft of the woody parts of the 



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