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after birth, and compared with lambs of the 

 fame age, it differed from them in the following 

 particulars : The ears, upper part of the head, 

 as well as the diftance between the eyes, were 

 larger. It had befides a band of whitifli gray 

 hair from the nap of the neck to the extremity 

 of the tLiil. The four legs, the fuperior part of 

 the neck, the breaft, and belly, were covered 

 with the fame white, coarfe hair. There was a 

 fmall quantity of wool upon the flanks only ; 

 and even this fliort, curled wool, was mixed with 

 a great deal of hair. The legs of this mule 

 were alfoan inch and a half longer than thofe of 

 a lamb of the fame age. When examined, 

 eighteen days after birth, the white hairs were 

 partly fallen off, and replaced by brown hairs, 

 fmiilar in colour to thofe in the he-goat, and 

 nearly as coarfe. The limbs continued to be 

 more than an inch and a half longer than thofe of 

 the lamb; and, on account of this length of limbs, 

 it did not walk lb well as the lamb. This lamb 

 was killed by an accident ; and I took no far- 

 ther notice of the mule till four months after- 

 ward, v.'hen 1 compared it with a flieep ot the 

 fame ap^e. In the mule, from the fpacc between 

 the eyes to the extremity of the muzzle, the di- 

 ftance was at leaft an inch ihortev than in the 

 fheep ; and the head of the mule was more than 

 half an inch broader, at the broadeft part. Hence 

 the head of this mule was thicker and {horter 

 than that of a flieep of equal age. The curva- 



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