largely participates In their wants, amd; dis^ 
tresses. Thus this faathmi animal, "which 
would umdoubt^dly be fctst of the quadruped 
iind, were there no horse, is consideijed, as- 
of liiLide value : aji it's properties and qualifi-^ 
cations being found elsewhere in a higher de.-t 
gree, the creature is. entirely disregarded);; 
and, from being iii£ttuia)ily the second in tb© 
scale of utility, is degraded into the most lixs 
significant of all domestic quadrupeds-. 
. Hence' so very lilitlie attention has been, paid 
to the improvement of the breed, that it ha* 
been suffered to degenerate ; and it appears 
highly probable that the Ass, of all other ani- 
mals, is the most enfeebled, and rendered 
most diminutive, by being in a state of domes-, 
tic servitude. The hoi'se, the cow, and the 
sheep, are rendered larger by tlie skill and 
assiduity of man ; while the Ass is permitted, 
to dvvind-le in every generation. Indeed, it iS' 
with us so little valued, that the whole spe- 
cies would probably have been long since ex- 
tin61:, if the medicinal quaHtics of it^s- milk 
had not tempted the avarice of mankind tor 
continue the breed. This salutary liquid is 
in 
