*793' account of fat rumpeifheep, l6[ 



ing, " that iKeep become fatter in the maritime snlt 

 marfhes of Italy, than on any other kind of pasture." 



Some'of the hordes of Kirguise on the river irtifii, 

 and the Stauropol Calmouks, who wandijr on the 

 banks of the Volga below Samara, in the govern- 

 ment of Casan, rear a breed of the same flieep, but 

 much diminifhed in size, in the mountainous country 

 they inhabit, Ly the want of saline pastures, and by 

 the depth of snow which falls there, that naturally 

 produces a scarcity of winter food, amongst carelefs 

 wandering hordes who do not provide hay. 



In those flocks, both sexes are often without 

 horns*. 



The same variety, m%. the steatopygi or fat 

 rumped flieep are still smaller with the pastoral 

 Tartars en the Jenisey ; and have still lefs fat on 

 the tail, than the flocks alluded to above. Those of 

 the Bouretes come likewise under the last descrip- 

 tion of diminiflied flieep, from the coldnefs of their 

 mountainous regions, where the plants are crude, 

 without saline impregnation ; at the same time that 

 the country is devoid of saline efilorcscence, and where 

 even water is very scarce. All these wants joined 

 to cold, render the country of the Bouretes very 

 unfit for rearing large sized fat mutton. The Mon- 

 gal Tartars who dwell near Selengahave fljeep rather 

 larger than those of the three hordes just mentioned ; 

 but never of the size of the Kirguise flock:, treated 

 of in page 159. Whereas the transalpine Dauric re- 



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