PACOS, in zoology, a name given to a species of
camel, commonly though improperly reckoned a species of sheep; and known among many by the name of the Indian sheep, or Peruvian sheep. See CAMELUS. p. 60.
This creature has been accounted a sheep, because its hair is so long as to resemble wool, and it is prodigiously thick, its head and neck alone having more wool on them than the whole body of our largest sheep. Its body is clothed in the same proportion with a woolly hair equally fine.