. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . e tail; the other parts of the bodyare less charged with it than in our fat sheep. This variety is to beattributed to the climate, the food, and the care of mankind ; for thesebroad, or long tailed sheep, are tame, like those of our country, and theyeven demand much more care and management. This breed is much moredispersed than ours; they are commonly met with in Tartary, Thibet, Tur-key, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Barbary, Ethiopia, and Madagascar; and even asfar a
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . e tail; the other parts of the bodyare less charged with it than in our fat sheep. This variety is to beattributed to the climate, the food, and the care of mankind ; for thesebroad, or long tailed sheep, are tame, like those of our country, and theyeven demand much more care and management. This breed is much moredispersed than ours; they are commonly met with in Tartary, Thibet, Tur-key, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Barbary, Ethiopia, and Madagascar; and even asfar as the Cape of Good Hope. In Thibet, their fleeces, which are veryfine, are manufactured into shawls. In the islands of the Archipelago, and chiefly in the island of Candia,there is a breed of sheep, of which Belon has given the figure and descrip-tion, under the name of strepsiceros. This sheep is of the make of ourcommon sheep. It is like that, clothed with wool; and only differs from itby the horns, which are larger and rise upwards, but are twisted intospirals. The distance between the horns of the ewe enlarges towards their. tops; those of the ram are parallel. This animal, which is commonly.•.ailed the Wallachian sheep, is frequent in Austria and Hungary, where itslame is zackl. In the hottest countries of Africa and India, there is a breed of largesheep, which has rough hair, short horns, hanging ears, and a kind of tuftunder the tail. Leo Africanus, and Marmol, call it adamain; and it isknown to the naturalists by the name of the Senegal ram, the Guinea ram,and the Angola sheep, &c. He is tame, like ours; and, like him, subjectto variety. These, though different in themselves by particular characters,resemble each other so much in other respects, that we can scarcely doubtthat they are of the same kind. A specimen of the male African sheep, is now in the Tower menagerie, to which it was presented by Lord Liverpool. In temper, it is extremely mild; but it is an uncouth
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