The Hiflory of ANIMALS. , 57S 
bf a pale dun colour, and the down is foft and fine : the feet are broad and fiefhy; 
the foal flat and foft, covered only with a fkin, as in the camel, and the front of the 
foot is divided into toes in the fame manner. 
This is a native of Peru; it is a tame and inoffenfive animal, and ferves the natives 
as a bead: of burthen. Ray calls it Camelus Peruvianus Glama di&us j others, Gvis 
Glama di&usj Matthiolus Elapho-camelus. 
Camelus gibbis nuttis . 
"The Camelus, without any gibbojity. 
This has alfo been reckoned by many a fpecies of fheep, though it be truly and 
properly a camel; it is about three feet and a half high, from the ground to the top 
of the back, but the neck is very long, and, when the head is carried erect, it is very 
tall: the head is fhort - s the ears are alfo fhort and broad; the eyes are moderately 
large and prominent, and the upper lip is divided or fplit as in the hare: the neck is 
long and flender j the body is plump and rounded j the tail is a foot and a half in 
length, and the legs are long and flender, but ftrong, and are covered with a very fhort 
and fine down. 
The head has fome confiderably long hair about it, and the neck is covered with a 
furprifing quantity of the fame kind, but of a greater length : this is ufed as wool in 
the country where the creature is produced, and it is in confequence of this that the 
animal which produces it has been called a fheep, for there is not any one thing be- 
fide that can have led to the ranking it with that animal. 
It is a native of Peru, and is fometimes employed, as the Glama, in carrying bur¬ 
thens j but it is lefs fit for this; it is valued for the hair of the neck, and for it's 
flefh, which is well tailed. Authors call it Pacos, and Ovis Peruviana. 
M O S C H U S. 
T H E Mofchus has no horns j the canine teeth of the upper jaw are exerted. Of 
this genus there is only one known fpecies, which is the animal that produces 
the perfume, from which it is named. 
M 0 s c « u s. %\yz fipus'it 
This creature has not only been mifreprefented by thofe who have written on ani¬ 
mals in general, but it has been referred to genera, with the fpecies of which it has 
not the leaf! affinity. Some authors have made it a kind of goat j others have called 
it a flag* but this is extreamly improper, and it is very flrange that thofe who thus 
arranged it, fhould not have attended to it’s having no horns, and to it’s having ex¬ 
erted tufks. 
The creature, when full-grown, is three feet in length, from the tip of the nofe to 
the rump : the head is oblong ; it’s length is about fix inches, and it is narrow ; it is 
not more than three inches in diameter acrofs the forehead, and it thence gradually 
tapers to the nofe, where it is very fmall : the anterior part of the head is, indeed, 
much like that of the greyhound : the ears are long and ere& • they referable thofe of 
the rabbit, and are equal in length to the diameter of the forehead ; the tail is very 
fhort 5 it is not more than two inches in length, and the creature always carries it 
eredt: the body is tolerably flefhy and rounded ; the legs are moderately long, they are 
more than a foot in length, and are tolerably robufl:: the feet are deeply divided each 
into two claws in the anterior part, and as many heels behind : the heels are as long as 
the anterior divifions of the foot, and are therefore remarkably confpicuous. 
The fur on the head, and that on the legs, is about half an inch longs that on the 
belly is an inch and half in length, and that which grows on the back is three inches; 
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