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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 447

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pu-of Mules. iation of a Mare and an Afs, and they receive their names from the fimilitude of their faces- Forthere is no other caufe, why wilde Affes fhoutd be called Affes, but only their fimilitude of tameAffes. And as among wilde Affes fome of them are fingularly fwift, fo alfo among thefe… … Tkarnacaf, Of the Mule. ^ 5 PbamacM,the father of Phamabazut. Ibeupbrafirus alfo reporteth, chac in Cappaj&cfa the Mules en- p/jU.gender among themfelves, which /iriftotle remembreth in his wonders, and he might well havefpared it,for they are a Kinde of Cattel among themfelves. There be flocks…

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