. Arctic zoology .. . esfouthward, as low as the provinces of ^livera and Cibola ; for FatherMarco di Ni(a, and Gomara, plainly defcribe botli kinds f. Some of the fkuUs of this fpecies have been difcovered on themofly plains near the mouth of the Oby in Sibiria. It is not foidhow remote from, the fea; if far, they probably in fome period mighthave been to the north ol Afia and oi America -, if near thefhore, it is poffible that the carcafes might have floated on the icefrom America to the places where the remains might have beenfound J. Of this fpecies was the head, and fuch were the
. Arctic zoology .. . esfouthward, as low as the provinces of ^livera and Cibola ; for FatherMarco di Ni(a, and Gomara, plainly defcribe botli kinds f. Some of the fkuUs of this fpecies have been difcovered on themofly plains near the mouth of the Oby in Sibiria. It is not foidhow remote from, the fea; if far, they probably in fome period mighthave been to the north ol Afia and oi America -, if near thefhore, it is poffible that the carcafes might have floated on the icefrom America to the places where the remains might have beenfound J. Of this fpecies was the head, and fuch were the means ofconveyance, from the coaft of Hud/ons or Baffins, mentioned by , and which he faw fo brought to Greenland ||; for it couldnot have been, as he conjectures, the head of the grunting Ox, an ani-mal found only in the very interior parts of northern Afta. * Dalhss Hud/ons Bey, 19, 25. f Purchas,vi.\iS\. \. 854. | Pallas, 4ittKV, com, Petrct, xvii. 601. tab. xvii. 11 Faun. Groenl, 28. C 2 SHEEP. li H S H E E P. Ihfr. iOjtad. Genus III. A R G A L I : Wild Sheep, Hi/I. ^ad. N ii. H. p. zZ.—Smellie, vi. 205. Lev. Mus. THE Sheep, in its wild ftate,inhabits the north-eaft of ^^<?,beyond lake Baikal, between the Onon and ArguiJ, to theheight of latitude 60, on the eaft of the Lena, and from thence toKamtjchatka, aiid perhaps the Kurili iilands. I dare not pronouncethat they extend to the continent of America -, yet I have receivedfrom Doftor Pallas a fringe of very fine twifted wool, Avhich had or-namented a drefs from the ifle of Kadjak; and I have myfelf anotlierpiece from the habit of the Americans in latitude 50. The firft was ofa fnowy whitenefs, and of unparalleled finenefs; the other is fine, butof a pale brown color : the firft appeared to be the wool whichgrows intermixed with the hairs of the Argali; the laft, that whichis found beneath thofe of the Muflc Ox. Each of thefe animals mayexift on that fide of the continent, notv/ithftanding they might ha
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