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indifputably the llieep I mention, the other I have heard 

 called a goat. 



The domellic animals of this country are horfes, fmall, 

 hardy, and fure-footed. Cows, black and ugly, but yield 

 plenty of milk and excellent butter. Here is alfo a flieep, called 

 Hiuidooy which is ufed to carry burdens. No defcription is left 

 to vindicate me for imagining it to be either the camel, (Llama, 

 Hift. Quad. i. N° 73.) or the Cbilihucque (N° 74.) ; the firft of 

 which is ufed for burdens in Peru^ the laft, formerly in Chili. 

 Certain it is that India has a tall llieep, which, faddled, actually 

 can carry a boy twelve years old. It is found about Surat. 

 Whether it could bear the fnows of the CaJJjmerian Alps, I leave 

 for the fubjedl of future inquiry. 



Abidfaz-uly p. 155, vol. ii. mentions the elk as one of the 

 wild animals of the country ; and adds, that the hunting leo- 

 pards are made ufe of in the chafe of that enormous deer. The 

 Cbittah, or hunting leopard, mvift be brought from the fcorched 

 plains of Bengal. The elk may be a native of the woods at the 

 bafe of the fnowy mountains, for they are impatient of heat, 

 and require forefts, for they fubfitt both by browzing and 

 by grazing. 



Cajlmiere, fays its hiftorians, had its own princes four thou- Princes. 

 fand years before its conqueft by Akbar in 1585. Humaioon 

 caft a longing eye on this rich gem, but by different accidents 

 the acquifition was referved for his fon. Akbar would have 

 found difficulty to reduce this paradife of the Indies-^ fituated as 

 it is within fuch a fortrefs of mountains, but its monarch, Yn- * 



fof Kban^ was bafely betrayed by his Qmrahs. Akbar ufed his 

 conqueil: with moderation, and allowed a pen lion to the con- 



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