ijS account of the fat rumped JJjccp. ^«^. ^« 



two hemispheres, which take the form of the hips, 

 ■with a little button of a tail in the middle, to be 

 felt with the finger *. 



This variety, besides the characters mentioned 

 above, have slender legs in proportion to their hoo- 

 dies, a high chest, large hanging testicles, a large 

 prepuce, and tolerably fine woo/ mixed with hair. 



Such are the great characteristic marks by 

 which tl;ie flocks of all the Tartar hordes resemble 

 one another ; but climate, soil, l^c. produce some 

 small difference on this variety, whether reared by 

 the Tartars, or the Rufiians, in the western deserts 

 of Great Tartary, from the river Volga totlfe Ir- 

 tiG), and the Altaic chain of mountains. In all that 

 tract of country, the pasturage is mostly arid, and it 

 abounds in acrid and liliaceous plants, in spring, 

 •whilst in summer it produces, at least in the open 

 spots where flieep delight to feed, besides gramen, 

 bitterand aromatic plants artemisia, camphorosna,-and 

 many species of salsola, abounding in juices and salts. 



There is likewise found every where an efflores- 

 cence of natron, with sea, or glauber's salt ; nay even 

 the waters of the desert contain in general the same 

 salts. 



Now it is almost unnecefsary to inform European 

 Ihepherds, that such pasturage has the euect of aug- 

 menting the si^e cf fjjeep, if it produces no other 

 change upon tliem, so that we see in this instance, 

 bow some kind cf difference may arise amongst 

 fheep of the same breed, merely from accidental cau- 



* See plate seccna, letter A. TLis plate -s ill be given with a fu- 

 tuve number. £..'.-.'. 



