1793* account of the fat rumped fieep. 159 



ses, without the least admixture of hetrogeneous 



blood. 



Kirguise 'Tartar flocks wandering in Great Tartary, 



The mode of life of the southern Tartar flocks, 

 may certainly have an influence upon them, as v/ell 

 as on the western just mentioned. It is as follows : 



They enjoy a moderate winter with regard to 

 cold, from the protection of mountains, although 

 they pafs it in the open air, with their Nomade 

 masters ; living mostly on dry stalks, especially 

 those of the half dry worm-wood, which is abun- 

 dant in the nlore elevated situations, that fhe wind 

 keeps clear of snow. 



In the spring, their masters conduct them to pas- 

 tures rich in rising plants and flowers * ; and now 

 being come into 3 most palatable and favourite pas- 

 turage, sprinkled with the above mentioned salt ef- 

 florescence scattered by the wind, and further im- 

 pregnated with saline dews, which fall often there in 

 the night, they augment their bulk very considera- 

 bly during summer, and still add to it in autumn, 

 by the pasturage mentioned above, abounding in 

 salsola and artemisia. 



In these long journies, they are often deprived of 

 water for a considerable time, till theji come to 



♦VirgHsexcellen- dcscrip ion of the Lybian Nomade fliepherd in his 

 3d book of ihe Georgics v. 340, a:;swers well ;o the Tartar No- 

 oiades 



Diem nocteroquc et totum exordjne mensem 



Poseitur — itque pccus longa in deserta sine ullis 



Hospitis ; tantuin cainpe jacet omnia secum 



Arn;entorius aseragit, tectumqiie laremque 



Arraeque amyclarumque canem crefsamque pliarctr.im, l;",rj 



