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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



them for warm raiment and coverings: the horns 

 are made use of for a variety of domestic purposes. 



The Mouflon has been known to breed with the 

 Sheep ; and from that circumstance, is supposed by 

 M. Buffon and others, to be the primitive race. 



The female of this species is rather less than the 

 male ; and her horns never grow to that prodigious 

 size. 



Those of Kamschatka are so strong, that ten men 

 can scarcely hold one ; and the horns so large, that 

 young Foxes often shelter themselves in the hollow 

 of such as fall off by accident. They grow to the 

 size of a young Stag, copulate in autumn, and 

 bring forth one young at a time, though sometimes 

 two. 



