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| Antique print - Lovely Domestic Ass 1874 Engraving A lovely engraving from a British Victorian natural history book.A beautiful engraving of a Domestic Ass. 'The domestic ass is evidently the tamed African ass. The ass was known to the ancient Egyptians long before the horse, and was, indeed, probably first domesticated n the valley of the Nile, whence it has spread over almost the whole of the habitable regions of the glove. In Europe, the largest and finest breeds are produced in the more southern countries such as Spain, Italy and Malta. The ass is valued not only as a beast of burden and draught, but likewise on account of its milk..' |
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