ORIENTAL SHEEP, 
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the ground. This species, lie fells us, is hi 
the Hebrew language called Alja. The com- 
mon kind of Sheep, he adds, according to 
Bochart, were called, by the Hebrews, Zanab. 
This comma a kind, we apprehend, is the 
Fat-R limped Slieep; as he refers his readers to 
Exodus xxix. 22. and Leviticus vii. S. and 
ix. 19. where the fat of the rump is mentioned 
in the account of the Jewish sacrifices. 
Many authors have noticed these Sheep; 
and some of our best systematic writers have 
separated them from each other, as evident 
varieties. Linnaeus-, however, is to be ex- 
cepted: for which, we cannot unite with 
BufFon in giving him our approbation, 
Ray, and Brisson/' says the great French 
naturalist, have made two distinct species of 
the Broad-Tailed and the Long-Tailed Sheep ; 
but Linnsus has properly reduced them to 
one." 
Our judicious countryman, Pennant, though 
he treats them as varieties, does not, in our' 
opinion, sufficiently discriminate between ihem. 
His 
