110 Account dfthe Taye. 



Louisiana west of the Missisippi, has seen it in that 

 tract of country. 



The existence of a native species of sheep, in North- 

 America, is thus sufficiently established. But it still, 

 as I have already observed, remains to be ascertained, 

 whether it be a sjecies peculiar to this continent, or 

 one common to it ind to the old world. We shall, no 

 doubt, be able todetermine this point, in the most sa- 

 tisfactory manne-, in the course of a year, at the ut- 

 most. If the IViOuntain Ram shall prove to be the 

 Arejali*, we shal thus have increased the list of quad- 

 rupeds that are common to the old and the new world; 

 we shall have renlered it more probable (and at pre- 

 sent it is highly p'obable), that the continents of Asia 

 and North-America were formerly joined, and that 

 many of the quadrupeds, as well as the human species, 

 passed from the brmer into the latter portion of the 

 Avorld. 



It deserves to b; mentioned, in this place, that bra- 

 zen images and stone figures of the Argali, ot Wild 

 Sheep, are often found in the graves of some of the 

 Tartar nations, among whom, it is easy to infer, from 



* " It is called, by the Kirgisian Tartars, jlrgali^ perhaps from 

 Arga, an alpine summit: the ram, Guldnha. By the Kamtc.hat- 

 kans, Goddinac/ilschj and by the Kuritians, liikun-donotoh, or 

 the U/i}ier Rein-deer, from its inhaliiting the loftier parts of the 

 mountains. The Russians style it Stefimi Barami, or the Bavi of 

 ihc Deccrt ; Kuinemioi, or the Rock-Ram, and Vikoi, or the Wild." 



Dr. Pallas. 



