The M O U F L O N *, and other 

 SHEEP. 



THE weakeft fpecies of ufeful animals were 

 firft reduced to a domeftic ftate. The 

 fheep and goat were fubjugated before the horfe, 



the 



* The Siberian goat has large horns bending back, clofe 

 at their bafe, dillant at their points, with circular rugae. 

 Thefe animals vary in fize and colour. The fkin of the one 

 the Britifh mufeum did me the favour of accepting, was co- 

 vered with pale ferruginous hair, on the fides fhort, on the 

 top of the neck longer, and a little erect. Along the lower 

 fide of the neck, and on the fhoulders, the hair was fourteen 

 inches long. Beneath the hair was a fhort wool. On the 

 knees, there was a bare fpot, as if by kneeling to lie down. 

 The tail was very fhort ; and the horns were twenty-five 

 inches long, eleven in girth in the thickefl place, and one foot 

 feven inches diftant from point to point. — The horns of the 

 females are much lefs than thofe of the males ; Pennant's 

 Sy nop f. of quad. p. 1 8. 



Moufion is derived from the Italian word Mujfcne, the name 

 of this animal in the iflands of Corfica and Sardinia ; in 

 Greek, povrpw, according to Strabo ; in Latin Mufnion or 

 Mujivicn ; in Siberia, Stepnie-bardni, that is, 'wild fneep t accor- 

 ding to Gmelin ; and, among the Mogul Tartars, Argali. 



Mufmon ; Plin. lib. 8. c. 49. Ophion ; I J. lib. 28. c. 9. lib. 

 30. c. 15. 



Tragelaphus ; Belon. Obf. p. 54. Rati Synopf. quad. p. 82. 

 Klein, quad. p. 20. The coat of the tragelaphus, fays Belon, 

 is fimilar to that of the he -goat ; but he has no beard. His 

 horns, which do not fhed, fefemble thefe of a fhe-goat ; but 

 they are fometimes twiited like thofe cf a ram. He has the 

 muzzle, front, and ears of a fheep; and his fcrotum is Kkewife 



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