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t avater’s 
Who can look at the hog without perceiving all 
the figns of meannefs from his ears to the tip of 
his fnout, with a treacherous eye, and a mifchievous 
grunt ? 
The mouth of an afs retraces every idea of ftu- 
pidity and ftubbornnefs j his heavy and flovenly 
head is the type of his charafter. 
The camel and dromedary rank as if they were 
a compofition of the horfe, (beep, afs, and monkey^ 
without having inherited their nobleh features. 
Differing from other ufeful animals, they have 
no mouths calculated for the bridle ; nor is the 
fpot where they can bear it marked with any fign 
of fpirit and mettle. Their other features are equal- 
ly mean, and expreffive of their fervility. 
bleme de I’avarice : un caractere de batreffe femble percer au travers 
de I’enfemble, & de chaque panic confiderde feparement.” 
It is true, that the goat appears to be, in fome meafure, a cari- 
cature of the theep. Poor, and ill-fed,' he bears the ftartip of avarice, 
with fomething of that beggarly poverty which prevails in thofe 
highlands where he is bed known ; but when the female has fared 
funiptuoufly in the valley, die looks as plump as an Englilh matron. 
Indeed, all mountaineers profefs the greated refpedt for this animah 
whofe milk they drink from their infancy. In their partial eyes, 
his whititli beard refembles thofe gray hairs which formerly didin- 
guiflied the Druids and elders of the land. Even that mifery, which 
a high-bred naturalid may defpife, Ihews the fpirit of independence 
peculiar to Wales, where he dill browfes like St. David’s fon, an 
Ancient Briton, who prefers the humble fare of his native rocks, to 
all the luxuries of England without his liberty. 
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