33 SHEEP. Class I. 



another kind, which is clothed with a mixture 

 of wool and hair ; and a fourth species, whose 

 flesh and fleeces are yellow, and their teeth of 

 the colour of gold ; but the truth of these rela- 

 tions ought to be enquired into, as no other 

 writer has mentioned them, except the credu- 

 lous Boethius. Yet the last particular is not to 

 be rejected : for notwithstanding I cannot in- 

 stance the teeth of sheep, yet I saw in the sum- 

 mer of 1772, at Aihol house, the jaws of an ox, 

 with teeth thickly incrusted with a gold colored 

 substance ; and the same might have happened to 

 those of sheep had thev fed on the same grounds, 

 which were in the valley beneath the house. 



Besides the fleece, there is scarcely any part of 

 this animal but what is useful to mankind. The 

 flesh is a delicate and wholesome food. The 

 skin dressed, forms different parts of our ap- 

 parel, and is used for covers of books. The 

 entrails, properly prepared and twisted, serve 

 for strings for various musical instruments. 

 The bones calcined (like other bones in gene- 

 ral) form materials for tests for the refiner. The 



p. 934. imagines it to be the Mi/simon of the antients ; the horns 

 of the Siberian animal are two yards long, their weight above 

 thirty pounds. As we have so good authority for the existence 

 of such a quadruped, we nhghtventure to give credit to Boethius s 

 account, that the same kind was once found in Hirta. 



