si^jç of the tame goat ; it resembles it piirticularly 

 in the shape of its back, rump and tail, but differs 

 from it in having a much longer n^ck, which is frcr 

 quently twenty inches in length, in its head which is 

 round and without horns, in its ears which are small 

 and strait, in its muzzle which is short and without ^ 

 ]t)card, and in its legs which are twice the height of 

 those of the goat. It is covered with a vtry fine wool of 

 the colour of dried roses, which will take any dye, 

 ^nd is used in the country in the manufacture of a 

 variety of cloths. This wool is known in Europe, 

 ^nd very highly valued. The paco is more robust 

 and of a thicker make than the vicugna, its muzzle 

 is longer, and its wool is also longer and not so fine. 

 The Peruvians keep numerous flocks of pacos, whose 

 wool they employ in the manufacture of several 

 kinds of cloth which have the brilliancy of silk. But 

 the paco is not found in Chili either in a domestic 

 or siivage state. 



The vicugnas appear to be more particularly at- 

 tached to that part of the Andes which appertains 

 to the provinces of Copiapo and Coqiumbo, where 

 they are found in the greatest numbers, and inhabit 

 the highest and most inaccessible ridges of moun- 

 tains perpetually covered with ice and snow. This 

 cold climate seems to be best adapted to their nature, 

 for all those which the inhabitants have attempted to 

 raise in the plains have been attacked by a spççies of 

 mange, which has soon destroyed them ; and it isniost 

 probably owing to this cause that the methods which 

 have been hitherto used to transport thist animal to 

 gyrope l>a,ve failed of success. The vicugnas are 



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