Class I. MULE. IQt 



Mulus, Rail syn. quad. 64. juba brevi. Brisson quad. Mule. 



Gesn. quad. 702. 71- 



Asinus biformia, Klein, quad. Q. Equus Mulus. Gm. Lin. 212. 



Charlton ex. 4. Faun. Suec. 35. edit. 1, 



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



Brit. Mul, faem. Mulea Germ. Maulthier, Mavdssel 



Fren. Le Mulet But. Muyl-Eesel 



Jtal. Mula Swed. Mulasna 



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



Port. Mula. 



XHESE 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 



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