162 MULES. 



is not unusual to shoe them either like horses or asses, 

 as they approach the one or the other in size or work 

 required. 



[FROM THE AMERICAN FARMER.] 



PRIZE ESSAY. 



[The premium of a silver cup, of thirty dollars value, offered bf 

 Robert Oliver, Esq. to the author of the best essay on the natural 

 history of the Mule, and its value for the general purposes of agri- 

 culture, in comparison with horses, was awarded by a committee, 

 appointed by the Trustees of the Maryland Agricultural Socie'.jr, 

 to the author of the following essay.] 



A DISSERTATION ON THE MULE, 



With the view of promoting an improvement in the breed, and of 

 demonstrating the utility of employing him as a substitute fm the 

 horse, in the labours of husbandry, canals, <c. 



BY SAMUEL WYLLYS POMEROY. 



" Opinion is the queen of the world it gives motion to 



the springs, and direction to the wheels of power." 



John Quincy Adams. 

 " Knowledge is power." Bacon. 



SOON after the accession of Charles III. to the crown 

 of Spain, his subjects were prohibited by a severe 

 edict, from wearing flapped hats and long cloaks ; 

 which caused an insurrection that obliged him to flee 

 from Madrid, after witnessing the massacre of nearly 

 one hundred of his Walloon guards ; and might have 

 terminated in a revolution, but for a speedy revoca- 

 tion of the edict and banishment of his ministers. An 

 eminent writer introduces the history of the occur- 

 rence, bv observing, that " it is easier to conquer half 



