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Quadrupedi 
THE RAM 
Is the male Sheep, and is so strong and fierce that he 
will boldly attack a dog, and often comes off victorious : 
he has even been known, regardless of danger, to engage 
a bull ; and his forehead being much harder than that 
of any other animal, he seldom fails to conquer. He 
overcomes the bull, who, by lowering his head, receives 
the stroke of the Earn between his eyes, which usually 
brings him to the ground. 
THE WALLACHIAN RAM. 
The singular conformation of the horns, which adorn 
the head of this breed of Sheep, has induced us to insert 
a figure of the animal in this work, though it is only a 
