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with coarfe hairy fleeces, fhort horns, pendulous ears 5 

 have a kind of dew-lap under the chin, and though do- 

 mefticated, feem to approach nearer! to a ftate of nature. 



The Many-horned SHEEP. 



The Iceland Sheep, as well as thofe of Mufcovy and 

 the coldeft climates of the North, refemble our own in 

 the form of the body, but differ in the number of their 

 horns, having generally four, and fometimes eight, grow- 

 ing from the forehead. Their wool is long, fmooth, and 

 hairy: They are of a dark-brown colour; And, under 

 the outward coat of hair, which drops off at ftated peri- 

 ods, there is an internal covering refembling fur, which is 

 fine, {hort, and foft; — the quantity produced by each 

 Sheep, is about four pounds. 



The broad-tailed Sheep, common in Perfia, Barbary, Sy- 

 ria, and Egypt, are remarkable chiefly for their large and 



