4 OF MULES. 



more attention than it has yet received ; for the 

 myfteries of generation by the concourfe of dif- 

 ferent fpecies, and the ai'certaining of the pro- 

 portional efFeclive powers of males and females 

 in every kind of reprodndlion, can alone be de- 

 veloped by an aflemblage of fimilar facets. 



Of my nine mules produced by the he- goat 

 and the ewes, the firfl was brought forth on the 

 15th day of April. When examined three days 



after 



mars, appears to he very fufpicious. The Sieur Lcgcr, in 

 his hiflory of the Voudois, tells us, « That, in the valleys of 

 Piedmont, there are mongrel animals, called jtimars ; that, 

 when engendered by a bull and a mare, they are denomina- 

 ted baf or huf, and, when produced by a bull and ihe- afs, 

 they receive the appellation of hif% that thefe jumars have 

 no horns, and are of the fize of mules ; that they are very 

 fwitt ; that he mounted one of them on the 30th day of 

 September, and performed, in a fmgle day, a journey of 

 eighteen leagues, or fifty-four Italian miles ; and that they 

 were furer and more eafy than a horfe.' 

 From an aflertion of this kind, we would be led to believe, 

 that thefe jumars, produced by the bull and the mare and 

 fhe-afs, either exifl:, or did formerly exift ; yet I have never 

 been able todifcover any confirmation of thefe faJls. 



Dr Shaw, in his hiftory of Algiers, p. 166. fays, • To the 



• mule we m; y join the Kmnrah, as the Algerines call a little 

 ' fcrviccable beail of burden, begot betwixt an afs and a cow. 

 ' That which I faw at Algiers (where it was not looked upon 



• as a rarity), was fingle hoofed, like the afs, but dillinguilh- 

 « ed from it, in having a fleeker Ikin, with the tail and the 

 ' head (though without horns) in fafliion of the dam's.' Dr 

 Shaw is an author who deferves credit. However, having 

 confultcd feveral perfons who had been in Barbary, and par- 

 ticularly the Chevalier James Bruce, they all allured me, that 

 they had no kr.owlcdge concerning thefe animals engendered 

 by an afs and a cow. 



