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Q U A D R U 
The qualities of this animal are fo well 
known, that we need not expatiate on them ; 
its patience and perfeverance under labor, 
and its indifference in refpeCt to food, need 
not be mentioned ; any weed or thiftle con- 
P E D S. [ Clafs I. 
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tents it: if it gives the preference to any 
vegetable, it is to the Plantane ; for which 
we have often feen it neglect every other herb 
in the pafture. 
The M 
Mulus, Rail fyn, quad. 64. 
Gefner quad. 702. 
Afinus biformis Klein quad. 6 . 
Charlton ex. 4. 
Britijh , Mul, F<em. Mules 
French , Mulet 
Italian , Mula 
Spanijhy Mulo 
fT y HIS ufeful and hardy animal is 
the offspring of the horfe and afs, 
or afs and mare ; thofe produced 
between the two laft are efteemed the beft, as 
the mule is obferved to partake lefs of the 
male than the female parent; not but they 
almoft always inherit in fome degree the obfti- 
nacy of the parent afs, tho’ it mult be con- 
feffed that this vice is heightened by their be¬ 
ing injudicioufly broke; inftead of mild ufage, 
which generally corrects the worfe qualities, 
the mule is treated with cruelty from the firft; 
and is fo habituated to blows, that it is never 
mounted or loaded without expectation of ill 
treatment; fo that the unhappy animal either 
prepares to retaliate, or in the terror of bad 
ufage becomes invincibly retrograde. Could 
we prevail on our countrymen to confider 
this animal in the light its ufeful qualities 
merit; and pay due attention to its breaking, 
they might with fuccefs form it for the faddle, 
U L E. 
» '.a • .• * 1 , . 
Equus auriculis longis, juba brevi. 
Brijfton quad. 103. 
Equus mulus, Lin. fyft. 73. 
Faun. fuec. ,35, 
^ Portug. Mula 
German , Multhier, Mulefel 
Dutch , Muyl 
Swedijh , Mulafna 
the draught, or the burden. The fize and 
ftrength of our breed is at prefent fo improved 
by the importation of the Spanijh male afles, 
that we (hall foon have numbers that may be 
adapted to each of thofe ufes. Perfons of the 
firft quality in Spain are drawn by them ; for 
one of which (as Mr. Clark informs us * ) 
fifty or fixty guineas is no uncommon price ; 
nor is it furprizing, if we confider how far 
they excel the horfe in draught, in a mount- 
anous country; the mule being able to tread 
fecurely where the former can hardly ftand. 
This brief account may be clofed with the 
general obfervation, that neither mules nor the 
fpurious offspring of any other animal gene¬ 
rate any farther; all thefe productions may 
be looked on as monfters; therefore nature, to 
preferve the original fpecies of animals entire 
and pure, wifely flops in the firft inftance the 
powers of propagation. GENUS 
NAMES 
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* Letters on the Syanijh nation. 
