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4. The Strepficheros or Cretan fheep. They 

 refemble ours in every article but the horns, 

 which are erect and chamfered in a fpiral form. 



5. The adimain, or large fheep of Senegal 

 and India, which are covered with hair more or 

 lefsfhort and coarfe, in proportion to the heat of 

 the climate. All thefe fheep are only varieties 

 of the fame fpecies, and would unqueftionably 

 produce with each other ; fince we know from 

 experience that the he- goat, whofe fpecies is 

 more remote, produces with our ewes. But, 

 though thefe five or fix races of domcllic fheepr 

 are all varieties of the fame fpecies, entirely 

 produced by difference of climate, food, and 

 management ; yet none of them appears to be 

 the primitive flock cr fource of all the reft; 

 None of them is fufficiently ftrong or nimble to' 

 refift the carnivorus animals, or to efcape from 

 them by flight. All of them equally require care 

 and protection. Hence the whole ihoirld be re- 

 garded as degenerate races, formed by the hand 

 of man, and multiplied for his u'e t While he 

 nourimed, cultivated, and increafed thefe denne- 

 itic races, he would neglect, injure, and deftroy 

 the wild race, which, being ftroffgj and lels trac- 

 table, would, of conrfe, be more incommodious? 

 and lefs ufeful to him. The individuals of this 

 race, therefore, would be fmall, and limited to 

 fuch defert cr thinly inhabited places as could 

 afford them fubfidence. Now, in the motrntains 

 of Greece, in the ifiand of Cyprus, Sardinia, and 

 Corfica, and in the deferts of Tartary, we find! 



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