ije A DIS q^U I S ITI ON on 



yet ; but from the defcription, I have every reafon to be 

 fatisfied that alfo is woo/ of a deep pile, and foft ftaple. 

 1 have Ukewife examined the fleeces of fome European 

 flreep which are abundant, but which anfwer the cha- 

 rad:eriftics of hair rather than wool ; and the refult of the 

 whole is, as far as I at prefent fee, as follows : 



Firft — That the flieep is not necelfarily a wool-bearing 

 animal, but that there are only certain hrceds of it which 

 can be thus diilinguilhed ; and that, letting afide lefler 

 diftin£tions, the different breeds of fheep may be arranged 

 under the following dalles : 



I ft. Thofe that carry fhort ftiff hair only, and nothing 

 that refembles wool, or that can be employed in manu- 

 fa£tures for the fuBe ufes as wool ; the Madagafcar 

 Iheep, and alfo the Boucharian iheep of Pallas, which I 

 am now fatisfied is of this fort. 



ad. Thofe that carry wool properly fo called. — The 

 llieep of this fort are diftinguilhed into a vafl: variety 

 of breeds, including moft of thofe reared in Europe and 

 Alia. Some of thefe breeds have among their wool a 

 quantity of a particular kind of opaque white hair, called 

 kemps in England, and fome have none of it at all; and 

 fo in various proportions, 



3d. Sheep that carry long hair, that may be fhorn like 

 wool, and may alfo be employed in coarfer fabricks in 

 the place of wool. Though this be in faft hair, yet it 

 has been in general confounded with wool, and fo deno- 

 minated. Many breeds of European fheep may be re- 

 ferred to this clafs : As alfo the Argall of Afia. There 

 feem to be two varieties of this clafs, viz. one that car- 

 ries a fine kind of wool among the hair, as the Argali : 

 the other that never has any of that fine wool among the 

 hair ; as the European fheep of this clafs. 



Second — There are other animals, fome breeds of 

 which, like the fheep, carry only clofe ftifFhair, while 



other 



