HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 6$ 



hind the ears : In feme, they grow to an amazing fize, 

 meafuring above two yards long. The general colour of 

 the hair is reddim-brown j the infide of the thighs and 

 belly white, tinctured with yellow ; the muzzle and in- 

 fide of the ears are of a whitifli colour ; the other parts 

 of the face are of a brownifh-grey. 



The Mufmon is found in the wild and uncultivated 

 parts of Greece, Sardinia, Corfica, and in the defarts 

 of Tartary. 



The form of this animal is ftrong and mufcular ; and 

 it runs with great agility. It is very fearful of mankind j 

 and when old is feldom taken alive. It frequents the 

 higheft fummits of the mountains, and treads fecurely on 

 the mod dangerous precipices.-— -The old Rams have of- 

 ten furious battles with each other, in which one of the 

 contending parties will fometimes be thrown down from 

 the heights on which they {land, and darned in pieces 

 at the bottom. If their horns mould by accident entan- 

 gle, they have been known to fall and perifh together. 



The chafe of the Mufmon is attended with great dan- 

 ger. At the fight of a man, they fly to the higheft parts 

 of the rocks, where they cannot eafily be followed. 

 They are fometimes taken in pit-falls. The Tartars pur- 

 fue them with horfes and dogs ; and furrounding a pret- 

 ty large tracl: of land, drive them towards the center, 

 where they are caught. 



The Kamtfchatkans pafs the latter part of the fummer, 

 with all their families, among the mountains, in purfuit 

 of thefe animals. — The flefli and fat of the young Muf- 

 mons are efteemed, by the natives, as molt delicious eat- 

 ing. The Ikins ferve them for warm raiments and co- 



