Class 1. MULE. 19 



Mulus, Rail syn. quad. 64. juba brevi. Bnsson quad. Mdle.^ 



Gesn. quad. 702. 71- 



Asinus biformis, Klein, quad. 6. Equus Mulus. Gm. Lin. 212. 



Charlton ex. 4. Faun. Siiec. 35. edit. 1. 



Equus auriculis longis erectis, Br.Zool.6. Hist. quad. I. 8. 



Brit. Mulyfcem. Mules Germ. Maulthier, Maulesel 



Fren. Le Mulct Dut. IVIuyl-Eesel 



Ital. Mula Swe4. Mulasna 



Span. Mulo Dan. Muule,v. Muul-Esel 



Port. Mula. 



X HESE useful and hardy animals are the off- 

 spring of the horse and ass, or ass and mare ; 

 those produced between the two last are esteem- 

 ed the best, as the mule is observed to partake 

 less of the male than the female parent ; not 

 but they almost always inherit in some degree 

 the obstinacy of the parent ass, though it must 

 be confessed that this vice is heightened by their 

 being injudiciously broke : instead of mild usage, 

 which gently corrects the worst qualities, the 

 mule is treated with cruelty from the first, and 

 is so habituated to blows, that it is never 

 mounted or loaded without expectation of ill 

 treatment ; so that the unhappy animal either 

 prepares to retaliate, or in the terror of bad 

 usage, becomes invincibly retrograde. Could 



