138. 

 THE BEE, 



OR. 



LI'TERAR Y WEEK! T INTELLIGENCER, 



FOR 



Wednesday, July 24. 1793. 



On 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 EuROPE TO 



THOSE OF China. 



Continued from p. 45. 



Siberian Argali or Wild Sheep* 



With a plate. 



1 SHALL begin my paper with a general descrip- 

 tion of this animal, as it appears to be the parent 

 of all our domestic varieties of fheep, howev^ 

 changed by servitude, climate, food, X^c. in the 

 hands of man ; but it vpould swell this difcertati- 

 on to a volume, to enter into its difsection, and all 

 the other minutiae of zoology with my learned 

 friend. The same observation is applicable to the 

 many physiological and anatomical inquiries with 

 which his notes are enriched, but which I have ta- 

 ken the liberty only to give an outline of, with the 

 conclusions he draws from them ; and even that I 

 presume is fully as much aa.wiU fall into the plan 

 VOL. xvi. L X 



