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but much inferior in size, is covered with long, 
line wool, sometimes entirety black, and sometimes 
of a brown colour, intermixed with yellow. It 
seems to bear nearly the same relation to the 
llama, as the ass bears to the horse. The llama 
bears a load of a hundred and fifty pounds ; the 
paco is overloaded if more than fifty be laid upon 
him. 
The paco, as well as the llama and the guanaco, 
is confined to that stupendous range of moun- 
tains, w hich terminates the southern extremity of 
the American continent. His fleece is an article 
of great value. It is manufactured into gloves, 
stockings, bed clothes, and carpets. Neither the 
beaver of Canada, the goat of Angora, nor the 
sheep of Caramania, affords a finer material for 
cloth than the paco. His wool is as soft as silk, 
and is sold at as high a price. His flesh is eaten, 
though not very delicate food. 
Vicugna. 
In the vicugna, we have an animal which bears 
nearly the same relation to the paco, as the guana- 
co bears to the llama. In figure, and in the form 
of his tail, he somewhat resembles our common 
goat. But bis neck is twenty inches in length ; 
his head thick, short, and destitute o£ horns ; his 
ears small, erect, and sharp-pointed. His wool 
is shorter, but still finer than that of the paco, of 
a beautiful rose colour, and of such a nature, 
that a dye may be easily fixed upon it. His 
belly often affords a bezoa'r. 
This is a wild, but a gregarious animal. Like 
the llama, the guanaco, and the paco, lie is con- 
fined within that lofty range of country, which 
bounds the southern continent of America. He 
flimbs and leaps among the lofty cliffs of the Cor- 
