$2 . of foeep—Conclusion. ° Sept. 11, 
ground, and horns as thick and longer than those of 
an ox.* 
Conclusion. 
In the paper thus presented to the society for the 
melioration of Britifh wool, through the medium of 
the Bee, I have endeavoured to concentrate the 
whole of Dr Pallas’s observations on the flocks of the 
pastoral nations (a few learned inquiries excepted, 
of which I have only given the result, ) from the am- 
ple materials furnifhed by that liberal philosopher ; 
and I think we may draw the following conclusions 
from the whole. 
ist. That there is but one species of fheep, divided 
into acertain number of varieties, distinguished prin- 
cipally by the ¢az/ ;as the doctor has found that all the 
different species mentioned by authors propagate to 
gether an dproduce prolific descendants ; which refutes 
all idea of a specific diiference. 
* In the time of Boethius, men were very inaccurate observers of 
natural objects, and much dsposed to catc! at the marvellous ; on 
which account, their descriptions cannot be relied upon, as those of na- 
turalists in our day, when they speak of what they have seen. I have 
never found a fact except this here mentioned, which indicated, that 
the long tailed fheep were to be found, at an antient period, in Scot= 
Jand. The native, breeds of all the neglected parts of Scotland and 
the isles were certainly -ef the fhort tailed sorts. Wecan at this day 
almost trace every long tailed fheep that is now found in Scotland, 
from the southward. That breedscems to have been first reared in Eng~ 
land. It is in gencralof a larger size than the fhort tailed sort, Pofsibly 
some coarse fhaggy woolled breed, of the long tailed fheep, may have 
been brought to that islaad among the plunder from England, in some 
of the military expeditions so common in antient times ; and may have 
propagated their kind there till the memory of their first introduction 
was lost, Edit. 
