FOUR -HORNED RAM. 
'Among the great number of species, or 
rather, perhaps, among the still greater num- 
ber of varieties, which distinguish the genus 
of Sheep, is the Ovis Aries Polycerata, of 
Linnseus ; or that class of these animals which 
have more than Two Honis, and which, 
; therefore, are denominated, by naturalists, 
(the Many-Horned Sheep. 
After eonsiderable research, however, Into 
the nature of these Many-Horned Sheep, we 
are fully persuaded, that they ought not to be: 
considered as any thing more than a mere 
accidental variety, and by no means as any. 
ddstin^i one : since it is certain that, in the 
same flocks where individual Rams have been 
found with Three, Four, Five^ or even Six: ^ 
Horns, others have only the usual Pair. It 
has also been remarked that, among tliese 
Many-Horned Rams^ when there are Tht'ec ' 
Horns, one of them stands ere£l — andy when 
Four, or more. Two of them ai'e Qit€i — while 
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