i6 OF MULES. 



* had brought forth a foal. I was defired to 



* write for proper vouchers of the fa£t ; and I 



* have now the honour of fendhig you the certi- 



* ficate which I received My correfpon- 



* dent is worthy of the higheft credit. He adds, 



* that he has feen mules cover, indilcriminately, 



* fhe- mules and mares, and likewife fhe-mu4es 



* covered by ftallions and he-mules.' 



This certificate is judicially attefted, and fign- 



ed by witnefTes of unqueftionable veracity. The 



fubftance of it is, that, on the 14th day of May 



1769, M. de Nort, Knight of St Louis, and late 



Major of the Royal Legion of St Domingo, 



had a fhe-mule brought to him, which was faid 



to be fick ; that her belly was remarkably large, 



and a membrane protruded through the vagina. 



M. de Nort, believing the animal to be inflated, 



fent for a Negro farrier, who had been accuftom- 



ed to take care of dii'eafed animals ; that this 



Negro, who arrived in the abfence of M. de 



Nort, had thrown down the mule, in order to 



give her a draught ; that, the moment after the 



fall, fhe brought forth a young mule, perfectly 



formed, and covered with long and very black 



hair ; that the young mule lived an ht)ur ; but 



that, having been both hurt by the fall, the foal 



died.foon after birth, and the mother ten hours 



after ; and, in fine, that the young mule was 



fiiinned, and the flcin fent, fays M, de Nort, to 



Dodor Matty, who depofited it in the Mufaeum 



of the Royal Society at London. 



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