QUADRUPEDS. [ clafs I. 
genus 
SPECIES 
III. The SHEEP. 
I. The S H E E P. 
Rail fyn. quad. 73. 
Gefn. quad. 771. 
Ovis aries. ovis anglica mutica 
cauda fcrotoque ad genua pen- 
dulis. Lin.JyJi. 70, 
Ovis cornibus compreffis lunatis. 
Faun Suec. 43. 
Aries, &c. Klein, quad. 
Aries laniger cauda rotunda brevi. 
Brijfon quad. 74. 
Buffon. 5. I. Tab. I, 2. 
MALE. 
NAMES ; 
Britijh , Hwrdd, Maharen 
French , Belier 
Italian , Montonc 
Spanijh , Carnero 
Portug. Caneiro 
German , Wider 
Dutch , Ram 
Swedijh , Wadur 
female. 
Dafad 
Brebis 
Pecora 
Oveja 
Ovelha 
Scbaff 
Schaep 
Faar 
LAMB. 
Oen 
Agneau 
Agnello 
Cordero 
Cordeiro 
Lamb 
Lam 
Lamb 
I T does not appear from any of the early 
writers, that the breed of this animal was 
cultivated among the B r itams $ the in¬ 
habitants of the inland parts of this ifland 
either went entirely naked, or were only 
clothed with (kins. Thofe who lived on the 
fea coafts, and were the moft civilized, affeCted 
the manners of the Gauls, and wore like them 
a fort of garments made of coarfe wool, called 
Brach<e. Thefe they probably had from 
Gaul , there not being the lead traces of 
manufactures among the Britains in the hido* 
ries of thofe times. 
This negligence may be eafily accounted 
for, in an uncivilized nation whofe wants were 
few, and thofe eafily fatisfied; but what is 
more furprizing, when after a long period we 
had cultivated a breed of fheep, whofe fleeces 
were fuperior to thofe of other countries ; we 
dill negleCted to promote a woollen manufac¬ 
ture at home. That valuable branch of bufi- 
nefs lay for a confiderable time in foreign 
hands $ and we were obliged to import the 
cloth manufactured from our own materials. 
There feems indeed to have been many una¬ 
vailing efforts made by our monarchs to pre- 
ferve both the wool and the manufacture of it 
among ourfelves : Henry the fecond, by a 
patent granted to the weavers in London , 
direCted that if any cloth was found made of 
a mixture of Spanifh wool, it Ihould be burnt 
by the mayor : * yet fo little did the weaving 
bufinefs advance, that Edward the third was 
obliged 
* Slew 4. 19 . 
