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His front had a noble aquiline curve ; there was a consider- 

 able tuft of his coating below his throat, and near his breast, 

 with fawn-coloured and dark spots about his face and ears. 

 The tail was slender, reached several inches below the heel, 

 and was covered with short hair like the legs. The covering 

 of the body was white hair, beneath which appeared, as you 

 opened it, a fine portion of wool or fur. The ears were 

 pendulous ; there was a groove or furrow in an oblique direc- 

 tion down the nose, from the inner angle of the eye. But what 

 is more remarkable than all is, that he had a double scrotum, 

 and the testes, instead of being enclosed in one skinny purse, 

 were contained in two distinct pouches. These, except the 

 latter, are marks belonging to the adiman, or sheep of Africa 

 and India, which Buffon describes as being " a large race, 

 with coarse hair, short horns, hanging ears, and a sort of dew- 

 lap and pendants under the neck." (Dr. Mitchell, in the 

 Medical and Philosophical Register^ of New York, vol. i. p. 245.) 

 The late R. R. Livingston, to whom Dr. Mitchell addressed 

 the foregoing description, thought the animal was certainly 

 " the adiman, or ram of Angola, described by Valmont 

 Bomare." The newspaper account stated that around his 

 eyes, for about half an inch in breadth, the hair was black, 

 and about the half of his ears towards the ends was also 

 black ; and further, that "there is an annual present of these 

 rams made to the bashaw of Tripoli, by Fezzan ; no females 

 are ever permitted to be sent away, and from the length of 

 the journey across the desert, but few males of those that are 

 sent, survive the journey; no yolk [unctuous matter which 

 exudes through the skin, and renders the wool soft] was 



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