ORIENTAL SHEEP. 
His descriptions, howicver, are tolerably accu- 
rate; but tbeir histories seem too intimately 
blended. This, indeed, as it appears to us, is 
more or.less the case with ahnost every writer 
on the subject. • We know of no one who 
has, in general, distinguished better between 
them, than the ingenious Mr. Kerr, in his 
translation of the Systema Naturse ; which wa 
greatly regret that this gentleman was not en- 
couraged to finish, as it would probably have 
been a credit to our country, and the neglect 
is little less than a national reproach. 
, The Broad- Tailed Sheep, or Ovis Aries 
iLaticaudata," Mr. Kerr observes, " has along 
land very broad tail. It is common in Syriay 
tBarbary, and Ethiopia, in Thibet, and among 
the Tartars. The tails, are often 50 long as 
to trail on the ground ; and to require a piece 
of board, with wheels, to keep them from 
galling: they are sometimes pointed at the 
end, but mostly square or rounded; and are 
reckoned a great delicacy, being composed 
of a substance between fat and marrow, and 
jomedmes weigh fifty pounds. Thooc of 
Thibet produce the very fine wool of which 
shawls are manufactured; but their tais, 
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