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With regard to Wool. 
: 2dly, That the first variety of Pallas; the Tscher. 
_ kefsian or long tailed, are the best wool bearing /heep, 
carrying naturally an woolly fleece without admix- 
ture of hair in all countries where it has been found; 
except always in the extremes of heat and cold, 
which turn wool to hair in every variety of the ani- 
mal. 
_3dly, That next to the Tscherkefsian, the mixed 
_ breed he has named Boucharian, promises the greatest 
advantages with regard to fleece, if managed with ‘kill 
and attention by the able and industrious Europeans. 
This variety, the qth and last of our author, is dis- 
tinguifhed by a taz/, thick and fat above, but long 
_ and lean below, 
4thly, That the Rufsian fae which . constitutes 
his 2d variety, distinguifhed by a fhort meagre ¢az/, 
are a small breed carrying wool of the very coarsest 
kind, only fit for the drefs of the northern peasants 
in a state of vafsalage; although climate, care, and 
_ pasture, seem to meliorate it very considgrably. 
sthly that the large fat ramped, or fat tailed theep, ' 
the variety reared from the frontiers of Europe, to 
those of China, by almost all the pastoral nations, 
and the whole of the Nomades ; and that which seems 
to be the most universally reared over the whole 
globe, as an article of food, from its size and fat- 
nefs, ranks the lowest with regard to fleece ; as it 
carries only a species of coarse wool mixed with hair, 
im all countries where it has been found : and even 
that very inferior fleece is so “matted together, as to 
