22 NATURAL HISTORY. 
back, well-placed legs, and tufted tail. The 
flcin is clofe and fmooth, and the hind-quar- 
ters are round and well' formed. The male 
is white and brown ; the female white and 
black. The colours are fo regularly ftriped, 
that they appear to be painted, and refemble 
fo many ribbons laid over its body ; fo that, 
at a finall diftance, the Zebra appears to have 
been drefled by art, inftead of being £b admi- 
rably adorned by nature. 
The M U L E. 
T his animal is bred between a horfc 
and a flie-aft, or a jack-afs and a mare. 
In Spain, where they are ufed to draw peo- 
ple of the firfl diftindlion, they are frequently 
fold at fifty or fixty guineas each. The com- 
mon Mule is very healthy, and lives about 
thirty years. 
RUMINATING- 
