aRIENTAL SHEEP. 
'Though we have adopted the name under 
%hich this Sheep was first figured by Ludol- 
*fti's, in his Hrstoria ^.thiopica, we are not 
entirely satisfied with so general an appellation 
as that dF Ovis Drientalis, or the Oriental 
Sheep ; since there are, in the Oriental re- 
gions, several other species or varieties, and 
even this is also found in Africa, It ought 
rather, perhaps, to be called the Broad-Tailed 
Sheep: which is an appellation it seems to 
have obtaimed in the Linnaean system, where 
it is denominated Ovis Aries Laticaudata; 
though nt)t always sufficiently distinguished 
from the Ovis Aries Steatopyga, or Fat- 
Rumped "Sheep, 
We learn, from Ludolfus, that this wonder- 
ful species of Sheep is seen both in the East 
and in Africa; that the tail is so fat, that it 
never weighs less than ten or twelve pounds; 
tfcat the largest tails are sometimes known to 
weigh forty pounds ; and that, on such occa- 
sions, it becomes necessary to support the tail 
by a small car, that the animal niay more 
commodiously carry it's tail, winch might 
jbe -torn or otherwise injured by dragging along 
the 
