50 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



the flesh is said to have a strong flavour of musk > 

 it is reckoned very good and wholesome. 



The Musk-Bull is somewhat lower than a Deer, 

 but more bulky. Its legs are short; and it has a 

 small hump on its shoulder : its hair is of a dusky- 

 red colour, very fine, and so long as to reach to the 

 ground: beneath the hair, its body is covered with 

 wool of an ash colour, which is exquisitely fine, 

 and might be converted into various articles of use- 

 ful manufacture: Mr. Jeremie says, that stockings 

 made of it are finer than silk. Its tail is only three 

 inches long, and is covered with long hairs, of 

 which the Esquimaux Indians make caps, which 

 are so contrived, that the long hair, falling round 

 their faces, defends them from the bites of the 

 musquitos: its horns are close at the base, they 

 bend downwards, and turn out at the points; they 

 are two feet long, and two feet round at the base; 

 some of them will weigh 6olbs. 



These animals delight chiefly in rocky and 

 mountainous countries: they run nimbly, and are 

 very active in climbing steep ascents. 



THE SHEEP. 



(Ovis Aries, Linn. La Brebis, Buif.) 



THE Sheep, in its present domestic state, seems 

 so far removed from a state of nature, that it may 

 be deemed a difficult matter to point out its origin. 

 Climate, food, and above all, the unwearied arts of 

 cultivation, contribute to render this animal, in a 

 peculiar manner, the creature of man ; to whom it 

 is obliged to trust entirely for its protection, and 

 to whose necessities it largely contributes. Though 



