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have ufed the rein-deer for the purpofes of carriage, in the 1779- 
fame manner, as their neighbours, both to the North and t ‘ 
the Eaftward. Their dogs, indeed, feem fully fufficient for 
all the demands of the natives in their prefent Hate; and the 
breed of Ruffian horfes will, probably, increafe with the fu¬ 
ture neceffities of the country. But when it is recolledled, 
that the ufe of dogs, in a great meafure, precludes them 
from the advantage of bringing up any other domeftic ani¬ 
mals, it will appear the more extraordinary, that they 
ffiould not have adopted the fervices of an animal fo much 
more gentle as well as powerful. 
The argali , or wild mountain-fheep % an animal, I be¬ 
lieve, unknown in Europe (except in Corfica and Sardinia), 
is here in great plenty. Its Ikin is like the deer’s, but in 
gait and general appearance, it partakes more of the goat. 
It has two large twilled horns, fometimes weighing, when 
at full growth, from twenty-five to thirty pounds, which, 
in running, it refts upon its back. Thefe creatures are ex¬ 
ceedingly nimble and fwift, haunt only the rnoft craggy 
and mountainous parts, and make their way among the 
fteepeft rocks with an agility that is alio milling. The na¬ 
tives work their horns into fpoons, and fmall cups and plat¬ 
ters ; and have frequently one of a fmaller fize hanging to 
a belt, which ferves them to drink out of in their hunting- 
expeditions. This animal is gregarious. I frequently tailed 
the fieffi of them, and thought it had a very fweet and de¬ 
licate flavour; but never had an opportunity of feeing one 
alive. I mull, therefore, refer the Reader for a particular 
defcription of this beautiful animal (for fuch it is faid 
to be), to the Memoirs of the Academy of PeterIburg, 
Tom. iv. tab. xiii. 
* Capra ammon y or wild fheep. Artf. Zool. i. p. 12. 
I have 
