natural history. 
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“ refetnbles thofe people who are naturally 
“ heavy and pacific, whole underftanding and 
“ capacity are limited to hulbandry or com- 
“ mcrce, who proceed in the fame track with- 
“ out difcompofure, and complete, with a fe- 
“ rious and politive air, whatever they have 
“ once undertaken.” 
The medicinal virtues of aires-milk,_iji re- 
ftoring health and vigour to our debilitated 
conllitutions, might alone entitle thisharmlefs 
and inoffcnfive animal to a kinder return, than 
it generally experiences from their inhuman 
and ungrateful mailers. 
The ZEBRA. 
T n I S animal is the moll wild and beauti- 
ful in nature, and is principally found in 
the fouthern parts of Africa. It is laid to liir- 
pafs. all others in fwiftnefs, and even Hands 
better and firmer upon its legs than the horfe. 
There was one in England that woidd eat 
bread, meat, and tobacco. It differs from 
the wild afs, with which it has been fre- 
quently confounded, in the defeription given 
of it by fome naturalills. In lhape, it more 
refcmbles the mule, than the horfe or the 
afs ; it is Icfs than the former, and longer 
than the latter : its ears are longer than 
thofe of the horfe, and Ihorter than thofe 
of the afs ; it has a large head, a Ilraight 
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