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This animal is about the fize of an afs, feme four or four and half 

 feet high, and fix in length ; the neck three feet long, the head is fmall, 

 its face refembling a camel, eyes large, nofe long, lips thick, the 

 upper divided, the lower a little depending ; like all ani nals that fred 

 on grafs, wants the upper cutting teeth ; the ears four inches long, 

 move with great agility j the tail fmal!, ftrait, a little turned ud at the 

 end ; is cloven footed, like the ox, but has a k'nd of fpear-like ap- 

 pendage behind, which afTifts it in moving over precipices and rugged 

 ways i the wool on the back is Ihort, but lon^ on the (ides anl tne 

 belly j has fmooth hair when tame, rough when wild; are moftly 

 brown, but fome white, black, or fpotted. 



The lama is extremely moderate in what it drinks, and exceeds even 

 the camel in temperance, indeed, of all creatures, it feems to require 

 water leaft, as it is fupplied by nature with faliva in fuch large qiian- 

 titics, that it fpits it out on every occafion, and this faliva is its only 

 ofFenfive weapon j wherever it falls on the Ikin, it caufes an itching and 

 reddifh fpot. 



Thefe animals are found wild in very great numbers, and exhibit 

 marks of very great force and agility; are in (hape delicate and ftrong ; 

 colour tawney, wool Ihort ; in their native foreils are gregarious ani- 

 mals, often ieen in flocks of two or three hundred. When they per- 

 ceive a ftranger, they regard him with aftonifhment, without marking 

 fear or furprife j but fliortly, as if by common confent, they fnuff up 

 the air, fomewhat like horfes, and take refuge on the tops of the moun- 

 tains : are fonder of the northern than the fouthern fide of the Andes ; 

 often climb above the fnowy tracts of the mountain, and feem vigorous 

 in proportion tptlie coldnefs of their fituation. 



The lama feems to be the largeft of the camel kind in America ; there 

 are others, called guanacoes and pacos, that are fmaller and weaker, of 

 the fame nature and forms. The wool of the paco is formed into (luffs, 

 not inferior to filk, either in price or beauty. The natural colour ot the 

 paco is that of a dried rofe-leaf, or dull purple ; the manufacturers 

 icldom dye its wool, but form it into cjuilts and carpets. 



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