. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . THE WALLACHIAN SHEEP. {Ovh StrepficeroSy Lin.—La Chevre de. Cretey Buff.) In Wallachia, they have Sheep with curious fpiralhorns, Handing upright, in the form of a fcrew ; longfliaggy fleeces -, and, in fize and form, nearly refemblingours. They are alfo found in the ifland of Crete, and inmany of the iflands of the Archipelago.—^This is faid tobe the Stre^tcheros of the ancients. 74 HISTORY OF QITADRX^ THE MOUFLON, OR MUSMON, {Capra Amhioriy Lin,—Le Moiiflon^ BufF.) Has been clafled both with the Sheep and the Goat kind,a
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . THE WALLACHIAN SHEEP. {Ovh StrepficeroSy Lin.—La Chevre de. Cretey Buff.) In Wallachia, they have Sheep with curious fpiralhorns, Handing upright, in the form of a fcrew ; longfliaggy fleeces -, and, in fize and form, nearly refemblingours. They are alfo found in the ifland of Crete, and inmany of the iflands of the Archipelago.—^This is faid tobe the Stre^tcheros of the ancients. 74 HISTORY OF QITADRX^ THE MOUFLON, OR MUSMON, {Capra Amhioriy Lin,—Le Moiiflon^ BufF.) Has been clafled both with the Sheep and the Goat kind,and may be confidered as {landing in a middle place, andforming the link between each \ for it is curious to ob-ferve, that Nature, in all her variations, proceeds by flowand almoft infenfible degrees, fcarcely drawing a firmand diftinguifhing line between any two races of animalsthat are eflentially different, and yet, in many refpedls,nearly allied to each other. In all tranfitions from onekind to the other, there is to be found a middle race, thatfeems to partake of the nature of both, and that can pre-cifely be referred to neitlier. Thus it is hard to dif-cover where the Sheep kind ends, or the Goat begins.—The Mufmon, therefore, which is neither Sheep norGoat, has a ftrong affinity to both. Though coveredwith hair, it bears a ftrong fimilitude to the Ram : Itseyes are placed near the horns; and its ears are fhorterthan thofe of the Goat: Its horns refemble t
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