THE BROAD-TAILED SHEEP. 



Thefe animals feem to have been known to the ancients : fome of whom 

 have aflerted that the tails were a cubit broad, and others that they meafured 

 a cubit in length. 



A variety, called by Mr. Pennant the fhort thick-tailed Sheep, abound in 

 all the deferts of Tartary, but the quantity of their fat is proportioned to the 

 quality of their pafture; the fineft being obferved to inhabit fuch places as 

 produce vernal plants, or are impregnated with faline waters. 



The fubjecl: of our Plate is commonly found in Syria, Barbary, and 

 Ethiopia, where its tail is faid to grow to the weight of fifty pounds. 



