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SHEE Pomagt. und. 2 ts aon es Te 
ARGALI: Wild Sheep, Hi?. Quad. N° 11. H. p. 38.—Smellie, vi. 205.— 
Lev. Mus. 
HE Sheep, in its wild ftate,’ inhabits the north-eaft of 4a, 
beyond lake Baikal, between the Oxon and Argun, to the 
height of latitude 60, on the eaft of the Leva, and from ‘thence to 
Kamt{chatka, aad perhaps the Kurili lands. I dare not pronounce 
that they extend to the continent of America; yet I have received 
from Doétor Pallas a fringe of very fine twifted wool, which had or- 
namented a drefs from the ifle of Kadjak; and I have myfelf another 
piece from the habit of the Americans in latitude 50. The firft was of 
a fnowy whitenefs, and of unparalleled finenefs; the other 4s fine, but 
of a pale brown color: the firft appeared to be the wool which 
grows intermixed with the hairs of the drgali; the laft, that which 
is found beneath thofe of the Mufk Ox. Each of thefe animals may 
exift on that fide of the continent, notwithftanding they might have 
not fallen within the reach of the navigators in their fhort ftay off the 
coatt. 
Certain quadrupeds of this genus were obferved in California by 
the miffionaries in 1697; one as large as a Calf of one or two years 
old, with a head like a Stag, and horns like a Ram: the tail and 
hair fpeckled, and fhorter than a Stag’s. A fecond kind was larger, 
and varied in color; fome being white, others black, and furnifhed’ 
with. 
