140. 

 THE BEE, 



OR 



UrERART WEEKLY IN TELLIGEiYCER, 



FOR 



Wednesday, August 7. 1793. 



On the different varieties of Sheep in a wild and do- 

 mestic STATE, reared IN THE RuSSIAN EmPIRE, AND B^C 

 THE PASTORAL NATIONS FROM THE FRONTIERS Of EuROPE TO 



THOSE OF China. 



Continued from p. 133. 



T^i^ second variety. 



Short tailed JJjeep. 

 This variety of domestic fheep is called the Ruf- 

 sian, and Pallas has named it ovis brachtura, or 

 fhort tailed. It is reared through out all the north 

 of Rufsia, and resembles that of Iceland, in size, 

 tail, and coarsenefs of ileece. 



Thus we see that although the northern regions 

 of Rufsia are little favourable to woo' bearing ani- 

 mals, yet they boast of a variety of the fliort tailed 

 fheep, peculiar to the country, which although re- 

 sembling the Icelandic in many respects, jet differs 

 from it in a very efsential character, that of the 

 horns, which are much smaller, ai.d have no hing 



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