-o8 THEMOUFLON, &c, 



thern animals, there is a layer of fofter, finer, 

 and more bufhy wool. In warm countries, on 

 the contrary, the fheep have generally fhort 

 horns and a long tail, fome of which are cover- 

 ed with wool, others with hair, and others with 

 a mixture of wool and hair. The firft of thefe 

 warm country fheep, which is commonly called 

 the Barbary jhcep *, or the Arabian foeep t» re ~ 

 iembles the domeftic kind in every refpec~t, ex- 

 cept the tail J, which is i'o loaded with fat, 



that 



* Perfia abounds in fheep and goats. Some of thefe fheep, 

 which are called Barbary, or broad tailed Jheep, have a tail that 

 weighs above 30 pounds. It is a heavy burden to the poor 

 animals, and ftill more fo, as it is narrow at the origin, and 

 broad at the extremity. Some of them are fo heavy, that the 

 animals areunable to trail them ; and the fhepherds are obliged 

 to fix boards with two wheels under the tail, to preferve it 

 from galling, &c. ; Chardin* torn 2. p. 28. 



f Ovis laticauda Arabica; Rati Synopf. quad. p. 74. Mod 

 naturalifts call this animal the Arabian foeep. It is not, how- 

 ever, an original native of Arabia, nor does it belong to the 

 Arabian race of fheep. Rut they are very numerous in South 

 Tartary, Perfia, Egypt, Barbary, and ia all the eaftern coafts 

 of Africa. 



Aries laniger, cauda latidima. . . . Ovis laticauda. La bre- 

 bis a large queue; Briffon. quad. p. 50. Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 97. 

 Nov. Corti.Petrap. tru. 5. p. 347. tab. S. 



t Neque his ariatibus ullutlJ ab alnS difcrirmm praeterqu.im 

 in cauda quam latiffimam circumferunt . . . Noniuillis libras 

 decern aut viginti cauda pendot, cum fua fponte Lmpinguaii- 

 tur ; verum in iligypto plurimi farciendis verveftbus intenti, 

 furfure hordeoque fagmant ; quibus adso craifcfcit cauda ut 

 feipfos dimovere non poffint ; verum qui eorum cuiam ge- 

 rnnt caudam exiguis vehiculis alligantes gradum promovere 

 faciunt ; vidi hujufmodi cs a Jim libras o/hiaginta po;: l^rr. r; j 

 ■{;}■::. Defer ipt.Afric. vol. 2. pag 



