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fingle perfon to be poffeffed of a thoufand or tweive hundred. They 
have upright ears, fhort tails, and often four or five horns *, They 
are fometimes kept in ftables during winter, but ufually left to take 
their chance abroad, when they commonly hide themfelves in the 
caves of exhaufted vulcanoes +. They are particularly fond of fcurvy- 
erafs, with which they grow fo fat as to yield more than twenty pounds. 
The ewes give from two to fix quarts of milk a day, of which butter 
and cheefe is made. The wool is never fhorn, but left on till the 
end of May, when it grows loofe, and is ftripped entirely off in one 
fleece ; and a fine, fhort, and new wool appears to have grown be- 
neath; this continues growing all fummer, becomes fmooth and 
glofly like the hair of Camels, but more fhaggy [. With the wool 
the natives manufacture their cloth; and the flefh dried is an article 
of commerce. 
In all parts of Europecu Raffa are found the common Sheep. Thofe 
of the very north, and of the adjacent Finmark, have fhort tails and 
upright ears, and wool almoft as rude as the hair of Goats; but are 
feldom polyceratous. They fometimes breed twice ina year, and 
bring twins each time ||. 
In the 4fatic dominions of Rufia, from the borders of Rufia to 
thofe of China, is a moft fingular variety of Sheep, deftitute of tails, 
with rumps fwelling into two great, naked, and fmooth hemifpheres 
of fat, which fometimes weigh forty pounds: their nofes are arched : 
their ears pendulous: their throats wattled : their heads horned, and 
fometimes furnifhed with four horns. Thefe are fo abundant 
throughout Tartary, that a hundred and fifty thoufand have been an- 
nually fold at the Orenburg fairs; and a far greater number at the 
fort Troizkaja, from whence they are driven for flaughter into diffe- 
* Smellie, vi. 207, 219. t+ Horrebow, 46. t Troil’s voy. 138. 
|| Leems, 228. 
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