^793* explanation of the plates, 3 1 1 



and divers countries of Africa: but as I find that in 

 our translation of the Bible, the fheep mentioned 

 by Moses, are rather the fat rumped than the Bou- 

 charian, I have contented myself with giving merely 

 his references, without making any extracts frotn 

 Holy Writ, that the curious may consult the ori- 

 ginal Hebrew ; they are : 



Moses book third, chapter eight, verse twenty- 

 fifth ; — and chapter ninth, verse nineteenth. 



But it is probable the doctor took his quo- 

 tations from either the Latin or German ver- 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES 

 Of theRu fsian fheep. 



Plate first is an accurate view from a colou- 

 red drawing done by Dr Pallas's draughtsman un- 

 der his eye, of the Siberian argali or wild flieep. 



Plate second, is a side, and back view ; letters 

 A a of the ram of the steatopyga or fat rumped va- 

 riety in its greatest purity of breed, as obtain- 

 ing among the Kirguise Tartars in the vast plains 

 of Southern Tartary ; the position of the ani- 

 mal marked with a Ihows the uropygium or fat 

 rump. 



Letter ^ is a representation of the head of the 

 same animal, with a couple olnoneola hanging from 

 the neck, called by the Rufsians car-rings. 



Letter C is a drawing of another Kirguise ram 

 with five horns, fliowing at same time the hanging 

 position of the ccirs of this variety. 



