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nation of Ram of Tunis -i^^ which description, it 

 must be observed, wants precision, for he does 

 not sufficiently distinguish the species from that 

 of the Barbmy sheep, from which it differs in 

 many respects, ahhough Linnaeus, or his editor 

 Graelin, has confounded them, by denoting both 

 as particularly remarkable for the breadth of the 

 tail -j~. 



Neither are the goats alike in the longitudinal 

 direction of Egypt. In the north the goats with 

 sleek hair an'd long cars hanging downwards, the 

 Mamhrina ox broad- tailed goat j^^ is the only species 

 which the Egyptians propagate. The goats of 

 the SaVd are much smaller ; their horns are thin 

 and handsomely turned ; they are very spruce 

 and lively, and besides, uncommonly noisy ; you 

 perpetually hear their bleating, the sound of which 

 cannot be better compared than to the cries of a 

 child. Their hair is long, very bushy, and nearly 

 as soft as silk. This latter characteristic, and some 

 other similarities in shape, give it a strong re- 

 semblance to the silky haired goat of Angora. 

 It appears that this race of goats is the same with 

 that of the goat of Juida, of which BufFon has 

 made mention in the natural history of the wild 

 goat, and which, according to the report of Bos- 



* Supplement to the Natural History of Quadrupeds, 

 •f Ovis latkaudata. \ See page 68 of 2d Vol. 



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