124 LECTURE IV. 



The chief distinctive character between the 

 two genera of Ovis and Capra or Sheep and 

 Goat, is that in the former the horns have a 

 spiral curvature; in the latter a simple one. 



The next, or 6th Linnaean Order of Quad- 

 rupeds is called BELLU.S, a word which cannot 

 admit of any very distinct English corresponding 

 word. We must be content to take the Linnasan 

 term in its original shape. This order, Bcllua, 

 consists, in general, of animals either of large 

 or moderate size, and comprizes the Rhinoceros, 

 Horse y the Hippopotamus, the Tapir, and the Hog. 



Of these Genera we surely need not particu- 

 larize that of Equus or Horse, any otherwise 

 than to say, that the common Horse is a native 

 of the Eastern regions, in which it is still seen in 

 a state at least approaching to that of natural 

 wildness, and that the cultivated or improved 

 races of the Eastern countries are allowed to 

 excel all others in swiftness as well as in beauty. 



The Ass belongs to the same genus, and, 

 like the Horse, is a native of the East, and is 

 an animal of great elegance and fleetness; and 

 by no means to be judged of from its degraded 

 descendents in the European regions, where it 



