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fcmblances, that we mlift pronounce them to 

 belong to the fame race. Of all the domeftic 

 kinds, this race appears to approach neareft to a 

 Irate of nature. It is larger, ftronger, nimbler, 

 and, confequently, more capable of fubfifting as 

 a wild animal. But, as it is only found in very 

 warra climates, and cannot endure cold, and 

 as, even in its native climate, it fubfifts not in a 

 wild ftate, but is domeftic, and requires the aid 

 of man, it cannot be regarded as the primitive 

 Hock from which all other fheen have derived 

 their origin. 



In conlidering domeftic fheep, therefore, re- 

 lative to the order of climate, we have, 1. The 

 northern fheep with feveral horns, and whofe 

 wool is extremely coarfe. The fheep of Iceland, 

 Gothland, Mufcovy *, and other parts of the 

 north of Europe, have all coarfe hair, and feem. 

 to belong to the fame race. 



2. Our fheep, whofe wool is very fine and 

 beautiful in the mild climates of Spain and Per- 

 fia, but which, in very warm countries, turns 

 coarfe. We have already remarked the con- 

 formity between the influence of the climates 

 of Spain and of Chorazan, a province of Perfia, 



O 3 upon. 



* Twenty- Silefian fhepherds arrived at Petersburg, and 

 were afterwards fent to Cazan to (hear the fheep, and to 



teach the Mufcovites the mode of preparing wool. 



But this did not fucceed ; and the chief cauie of its failure 

 was faid to be owing to the coarfenefs of the wool, the iheep 

 and goats having always intermixed and produced together ; 

 Nouv. Mem. fur fetat de la Mofcsvie, torn. I. /. 290. 



