. The breeds, management. great velocity, so asto touch the desired notes. In many parts of the Alps,and even in France, (says Goldsmith*,) the shepherd andhis pipes are still continued with true antique simplicity.—The flock is regularly penned every evening, to preservethem from the wolf, and the shepherd returns homewardat sunset, with his sheep following him, and seeminglypleased with the sound of his pipe, which is blown with areed, and resembles the chanter of a bagpipe. Before Ihad seen them trained in this manner, I had no conceptionof those descriptions in the old pastoral poets, of t
. The breeds, management. great velocity, so asto touch the desired notes. In many parts of the Alps,and even in France, (says Goldsmith*,) the shepherd andhis pipes are still continued with true antique simplicity.—The flock is regularly penned every evening, to preservethem from the wolf, and the shepherd returns homewardat sunset, with his sheep following him, and seeminglypleased with the sound of his pipe, which is blown with areed, and resembles the chanter of a bagpipe. Before Ihad seen them trained in this manner, I had no conceptionof those descriptions in the old pastoral poets, of the shep-herd leading his flock from one country to another, As Ihad been used to see these harmless creatures driven be-fore their keepers, I supposed all the rest was pure inven-tion. This mode of using the shepherds pipes is mentioned inHomers Iliad, (Book 18th, line 526;) and they are, doubt-less, one of th© most ancient of all musical instruments. 18 ASIATIC AND AFRICAN SHEEP. SECTION III. ASIATIC AND AFRICAN SHEEP. FAT-RUMPED SHEEP. This breed of sheep is described by Dr. Anderson, thetraveler, as follows: The flocks of all the Tartar hordesresemble one another, by having a large yellow muzzle,the under jaw ofien projecting beyond the upper; by hav-ing long hanging ears, and by the horns of the adult rambeing large, spiral, wrinkled, angular, or bent in a lunarform. They have slender legs in proportion to their bod-ies, a high chest, large hanging testicles, and tolerably finewool mixed with hair. The body of the ram, and some-times of the ewe, swells gradually with fat towards the pos-teriors, where a solid mass is formed on the rump, and fallsover the anus in place of a tail, divided into two hemis- ASIATIC AND AFRICAN SHEEP. 19 pheres, which take the form of the hips, with a little buttonof a tail in the middle, to be felt by the finger. There is, also, a hornless variety of the fat-rumped annexed cut is a correct portrait of a hornless fat-rumped Persian r
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