WILD LLAMA? 53 
* The Llama, like the Vigonia, is lower 
upon the legs than the Guanaco; and, 
like the Vigonia, it is a wool-bearing ani- 
mal; but its wool is coarser. Altogether, 
there appears to be a degree of resemblance 
between the Ilama and the Vigonia, closer 
than that which subsists between the Llama 
and the Guanaco. Both are celebrated for 
wool, and both are remarked for compara- 
tive shortness of legs; but, besides that the 
head and face of the Vigonia are unlike those 
of the Llama, and that the head and face of 
the latter differ but little from those of the 
Guanaco, there are other reasons which forbid 
us to suppose the Llama a domestication of 
the Vigonia, any more than of the Guanaco. 
The Llama, which is larger than the Gua- 
naco, is much larger, therefore, than the 
Vigonia; and the wool of the Vigonia, or 
wild species, is finer than that of the Llama, 
or domesticated breed. The reverse, as to 
size, according to all experience, should be 
the fact, if the Llama were a domestication, 
either of the Vigonia or Guanaco. 
“If the figure, in the mean time, of the 
Llama, could be reconciled with that of the 
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