1793' account of the fat rutiipedjljeepi 199 



hornsj the second is a ram from the banks of the 

 Jenisy, with four, symmetrically arranged. On the 

 authority of Mr Leigh in his history of Lancafliire, 

 Dr Pallas mentions a breed of large fheep in En- 

 gland, with hair instead of wool, and four horns, the 

 upper pair like those of a he goat, the lower spiral 

 like those of a ram •■, probably the breed came ori- 

 ginally from Iceland, where we are told iuch Iheep 

 obtain ; and he fiiiilhes the article by bringing evi- 

 dence of multiplicity of horns, in the extremes 

 of both heat and cold, although he thinks a severe 

 cold climate, lefs lavourable to luxuriancy of this 

 kind, than an exctfsive hot one, judging from the 

 number of cows he met with in the north, either in- 

 tirely without horns, or with remarkably small ones. 



He pursues the subject ot horns, by informiiig us 

 that the Mongal Tartars rear in general goats with- 

 out them, to prevent them wounding one anothtr in 

 their battles, which they effect by never admitting 

 into their flocks a he goat with horns. 



As to fheep, if the ewes have them, although the 

 rams are without horns, the lambs will have them ; 

 but if both parents are without these weapons of 

 offence, their progeny will generally be so too. 



Dr Pallas next treats of the ears of this variety 

 of fheep, and of other animals. 



The form of the ears, like that of the head, is 

 constantly pendulous in the steatopyga, or fat tailed, 

 variety, and are either bent forward, so as to meet 

 on the forehead, as in plate third letter a, or they 

 hang down towards the g:ouad; and are always 

 larger and looser in this variety of fheep than ia 

 any other (see phte second letters A, C.) The 



