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S H E E P. 



Clafs, L 



Genus III. The SHEEP. 



Species I. The SHEEP. 



Ovis, Raii/yn. quad. 73. 

 Gefn. quad, ' 7 1 . 

 Ovis aries, ovis anglica mutica 

 Cauda fcrotoque ad genuapen- 

 dulis. Lin. Jyfi, 97. 

 Ovis cornibus compreflis lunatis. 

 Faun, Suec. 45. 



Aries, &c. Klein, quad. 



Aries laniger Cauda rotunda 



brevi. Brijfon quad. 48. 

 De Buffon. V. 1. tab. I, 2. 

 Br. Zool. IQ. 







NAMES. 







Male. 



Female. 



La MB. 



Brit. 



Kwrd, Maharen 



Dafad 



Oen 



Fren. 



Le Belief 



La Brebis 



L'Agneau 



Ital. 



Montone 



Pecora 



Agnello 



Span. 



Carnero 



Oveja 



Cordero 



Fort. 



Caneiro 



Oveiha 



Cordeiro 



Germ. 



Wider 



Sc'haiF 



Lamh, 



But. 



Ram 



Schaep 



Lam 



S'wed. 



Wad ur 



Faar ' 



Lamb 



Dan. 



Vsdder, Vsre 



Faar 



Lam,flg-«/« 

 GimmerLam. 



IT does not appear from any of the early writers, 

 that the breed of this animal was cultivated 

 among the Briiains ; the inhabitants of the inland 

 parts of this ifland either went entirely naked, or were 

 only clothed with fkins, Thofe who lived on the 

 fea coafts, and v^ ere the mofl civihzed, affecfted the 

 manners of the Gauls, and wore like them a fort of 

 garments made of coarfe wool, called Brachce. Thefe 

 they probably had from Gaul.^ there not being the 

 leaft traces of manufadures among the Britains^ in 

 the hiftories of thofe times- 



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