is 1793- account of the Tauric ecp. 47 
a respectful, polite, and prudent mein, that he filled 
all the Kirguise and the Han. himself with wonder. 
The Han however recollecting himself, spoke as fol- 
lows ; ‘* Czarowitz Ivan! they say of you that you 
“ are a wise child, pray seek me a flower,—a rose 
«¢ without prikles that stings not. Your tutor will 
‘« fhow you a wide field: I give you a term of three 
“ days.”? The child bowing again to the Han said, 
‘I hear,’ and went out of the kibitka to his own 
home. 
To be concluded in our next. 
Own THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF SHEEP IN A WILD AND DO- 
MESTIC STATE, REARED IN THE Russian Empire, AND BY 
THE PASTORAL NATIONS FROM THE FRONTIERS OF E.vROPE TO 
THOSE oF CurNa. 
Continued, from vol. xvi. p. 312. 
The fifth veriety. 
Ovis TAURICA. 
"Tuer is still a breed of fheep in the Crimea, 
(lately brought back to its ancient appellation of 
Tauride by her imperial majesty,) which even the 
wide range of Dr Pallas’s travels did not permit him 
to examine, but which he hopes to describe on his 
journey home from the new excursion he is going upon 
for the advancement of natural history in general, 
and the completion of his Flora Rofsica in particular; 
a splendid work executed by the learned academici- 
an, at the sole expence of her imperial majesty, who 
presents it tothe learned in Europe, as a mark of 
her attention to science, and its profefsors, 
