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THE AFRICAN SHEEP. 
Orvis ARTES. Lin. Var. GUINEENSIS. 
In characterizing the present genus, were we to look 
solely at the animal such as we have it daily before our 
eyes, the distinction between it and all the other Rumi- 
nants is too striking to be for a moment mistaken. But 
the insensible gradations which connect this familiar 
denizen of our downs and pastures with the untamed 
native of the desert and the precipice, and the close 
affinity which subsists between the latter and the goats, 
render it almost impossible to isolate them by any 
satisfactory characters. On the present occasion we shall 
content ourselves with observing that the sheep may 
generally be distinguished by the direction of their 
