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difcovered in the Ruffian dominions, by the learned 

 Dr. Pallas, fo well known in the republick of letters, 

 by his many ingenious works in natural hiftory, and 

 other branches of fcience; a tranflation of which, 

 into Englifh, was lately publiihed in London. By 

 the fame means we have become now perfeftly well 

 acquainted with the Spanilli flieep, and its diftinguifh- 

 able peculiarities; as well as with a great many other 

 varieties of the flieep from various parts of Afia, 

 diffisring from each other in a much greater degree 

 than ever we fufpe£ted before in Europe was poffible. 

 It would take up too much of the time of the 

 Society, were I to enumerate, in detail, the indivi- 

 dual varieties that might be fpecified. I fliall here 

 only briefly fl:ate, that all of them may be reduced 

 to one or other of the three following claflTes, or 

 the mongrel breeds refulting from an intermixture 

 with each other, viz. 



CLASS FIRST. 



WooL-BEARiNc Sheep, pfopeHy fo called. 



This clafs comprehends a great many of the va- 

 rieties of flieep found in Britain, and throughout the 

 greatefl part of Europe. Sheep referable to this 

 clafs are alfo found in Aflatic Ruflia, in Africa, at the 

 Cape of Good-Hope, and in various parts of India. 



Among raoft of the varieties of this clafs, unlefs 

 where it has been purified by a careful feleftion con- 

 tinued 



