144- 

 THE BEE, 



OR. 



LirERARY WEEKLY INTTELLIGNCER, 



FOR 



Wednesday, August s8. 1753. 



On the different varieties of Sheep in a wild and in 



MESTIC STATE, REARED IN THF. RuSSIAN EmpirE, AWD DY 

 THE PASTORAL NATIONS FROM THE FRONTIERS OF EoROPE TO 



THOSE Of China. 



Continued from p. 248. 



"^the Fourth variety. 



The Boucha-ian Jljeep, 

 X HIS rarietjr, raised b) :he Boucharian Tartars, 

 and Persians in grcai numbers, Dr Pallas regards 

 as a Hjixed breed, Irom the union of his iirst and 

 third- varieties, vi'n. the bng, and fat tailed llicep. 



This fact, the particuliT configuration of this tail 

 seems to indicate, as it is made up of those of its 

 two parents ; (see the irticic uropygium below.) 



The iheep 01 this variety which the doctor saw ia 

 his travels wrre only tivo years old, and of course 

 not at tiieir full growfci, but he thinks theyt-ould ne- 

 ver h''\\n t!.c; aiz,e of either of their parents, the do- 

 lt chur:i ind steatoj>yga, or even become much lar- 



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