2:6 THEMOUFLO N, &c. 



nia, and Corfi.r.i^. But it is ftill more nume- 

 rous in thefouthern mountains of Siberia, under 

 a climate rather cold than temperate, where it 

 even appears to be larger, ftronger, and more 

 vigorous. Hence it might equally iupply the 

 north and the fouth : Its offspring mi emt be ren- 



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clered dotrieftic. After fuffering long the hard- 

 ihips ef this (late, it would degenerate; and, 

 according to the differences of climate and treat- 

 ment, would affume relative characters, and new 

 habits of body, which, being afterward trans- 

 mitted by generation, gave rife to our domeftic 

 fheep, and all the other races formerly enume- 

 rated. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



We have given the figure of a ram which was 

 mown at the fair of St Germain, in the year 



»774i 



great fwiftnefs ; but tliey never quit the highelt and molt 



rugged mountains. Their fkih is good and favoury 



The fkir.s of thefe animals are drefied, and fent to Italy, -where 

 they go by the name of cordoani or corduani ; Defcript. d:s 

 JJles de I'Archipel, par Dapper, p. CO. 



* His in infulis (Sardinia et Corfica) nafcuntur arietes qui 

 pro lana pilum caprinum producunt, quos mufmones voci- 

 tant ',_Strabo i lib. 5 — Nuper apud nos Sardus quidam vir non 

 illiteratus Sardinian! affirmavitabundare cervis, apris, acdamis, 

 et infuper animali quod vulgo muflonem vocant, pelle et pilis 

 (pilis capreae, ut ab alio quodam accepi, caetera fere ovi fimi- 

 le) cervo fimile ; cornibus arieti, non longis led retro circa au- 

 res refiexis, magnitudine cervi mediocris, herbis tantum vivere, 

 in montibus afperioribus verfari, curfu velociffimo, carne ve- 

 Bationibus expedita j Gejner, Hijl. quad. p. 823. 



