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One reafon indeed for replenishing the foreft 

 fo much with afles is the propagation of 

 mules ; of which great numbers are bred in 

 many parts of it : at leaft the breed was much 

 incouraged before the troubles of America, 

 whither feveral were every year, exported ; and 

 ftill more to the Weft- India iflands. 



The mule is by no means fo picturefque 

 an animal as the afs ; and is rarely introduced 

 in landfcape ; chiefly, I fuppofe, becaufe he 

 has not fo determined a character. He is 

 neither a horfe, nor an afs, and yet has 

 a refemblance to both. To make an object 

 truely picturefque, it fhould be marked ftrongly 



with fome peculiar character. Befides, the 



mule varies in form, as much from himfelf, 

 as he does either from the horfe, or the afs. 

 He follows his fire. A mule bred from an 

 Arabian, differs as much from the offspring 

 of a forefter, as the two fires themfelves. 

 Thi-s alfo injures it's picturefque character. 



The mule, from which the annexed 



drawing was taken, was a mule of blood. 

 The afs alfo varies from itfelfj but not fo 

 much as the mule. He is here reprefented 

 under one of his moft elegant forms, that he 

 may the more juftly be compared with a mule 



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