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furnish leather and clothing, the hair being manufactured 
into cloth. It is the long wooly coat of the Alpaca, one 
of the Llamas, which is so largely imported into Europe 
and converted into fabrics of various kinds. It differs, how¬ 
ever, from the Camel in not inhabiting sandy deserts, 
but the mountainous regions of South America. It was 
from the circumstance of its being a hill animal and used 
as a beast of burden, that during the viceroyalty of Lord 
Mayo, these very animals were brought to India and sent 
to the North-West Provinces with the object of introduc¬ 
ing them into the Himalaya to take the place of sheep, 
which are there used to carry goods over the high passes. 
The sad calamity which terminated Lord Mayo’s career, 
unfortunately put an end to this experiment, which is still 
well worthy of being tried. One of these Llamas has 
the disagreeble habit of spitting at visitors when offended, 
or even when merely looked at attentively, but this is 
not singular to this animal, as the majority of them 
manifest it in confinement. 
Like the Camels they are modified ruminants, but differ 
. from them in having no hump on the back, and in having 
the toes separate, with distinct pads and long curved nails. 
They have also no horns. 
Leaving the Equine Enclosure, the visitor will find at its 
western end 
The Porcupine House* 
In this house three or four species of Porcupine are 
usually exhibited, viz., the large or long-quilled porcupine, 
Hystrix cristata ; the short-quilled porcupine, 11. bengaU 
ensis, and the brush-tailed porcupine which belongs to a 
distinct genus, Atherura , and which is represented by 
