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sembling dried roses, which constitutes a valuable 

 article of commerce, and is manufactured into gloves, 

 stockings, carpets, &c. The pacos associate in nu- 

 merous herds upon the most elevated parts of the 

 Andes, where they are almost inaccessible, and endure 

 the utmost severity of those frozen regions. The 

 manner of taking them by the natives is singular. 

 They tie cordsi with small pieces of cloth or wool 

 hanging loosely from them, across the narrow passes 

 of the mountains, about three feet from the ground. 

 They then drive a herd of these animals towards 

 them, and they are so terrified by the fluttering of 

 the rags, which they dare not pass, that they crowd 

 together in great numbers, and are taken without dif- 

 ficulty. 



* The pacos, like the lama, is domesticated, and 

 sometimes used for carrying burdens ; but it cannot 

 bear more than sixty or seventy pounds, and is less 

 tractable and patient than the lama. 



The great advantages derived from the wool of 

 these animals, induced the Spaniards to attempt their 

 introduction into Europe. Some of them were brought 

 into Spain ; but through mismanagement, or some 

 other cause, the experiment did not succeed. 



I shall, for the present, conclude with assuring y 

 that, most affectionately, 



I remain, dear Sir 

 Your's, 



LETTER XXII. 



" How instinct varies in the groveling swine, 

 Coinpar'd, half-rcasoiiiiig elephant, with thine." 



DEAR SIR, 



I COME now to the description of a kind of quad- 

 ruped which seem to occupy, in the scale of animated 

 nature, a middle place, between the herbivorous and 

 the carnivorous race, and inii'e in themselves most of 

 those distinctions which are peculiar to tlic-.c two 

 grand divisions of the animal k : 'i<. iom. The hog in 

 all its varieties, although i> ierlor in utility to the 

 horse, the cow, and the sheep, neither rendering u 



