l^^^* account of Boucharian Jheep. 309 



a mixture of the long and fat tailed flieep, whose 

 wool is meliorated by the climate ; they are princi- 

 pally drawn from the figure and composition of the 

 tail (as described in page, 306 ) and the great re- 

 semblance between them ad the mixed race the doc- 

 tor saw in Siberia, as mentioned in his second varie- 

 ty, produced by crofting thtfat, with the Jhort tail- 

 led or Rufsian ftieep ; and with another breed of 

 mixed fheep he met with among the Krasnojark Tar- 

 tars. 



The same variety which makes the subject of 

 this article, is likewise raised in great numbers 

 by the Persians, and it is more than probable if we 

 are to give credit to authors ancient and modern, 

 that this very variety obtains in Syria, Palestine, and 

 divers countries of Africa, known to them by the 

 name of ovis macrocereas *. 



It differs in all those countries from the fat tail- 

 ed or iteatopyga of Pallas, in having a long tail, fat 

 and broad above, with a long narrow appendage, 

 which is exactly the great marked character of the 



* The wools of Persia and of Cafhemire, have been long esteem- 

 ed the finest that are brought to the European market ; and for many- 

 centuries past, have sold at the highest price. In the year i^ipPierre 

 Ricardo, in his Traite le Negoce iVAmstei'dajn states the price of 

 wools in that market as under : 

 Wools of Germany from 7d. to 11 d per pound. 

 Wools of Poland from 9 d. ^, to I s. o J per ditto. 

 Wools of Persia f White from 3 s. to 3 s. 6 d. 



or Caramania. "I Red 4s. id. to 4s, 3d. 



Spanidi from i s. 2 d. 5, to 3 s. 10 d. \. 



About that period the best Englilh wool sold for about %i.^ per 

 pound. Sec Anderson'' s obsewations on Nationai hiditstry j;. 247. 



