The domestic sheep its The domestic sheep : its culture and general management domesticsheepits01stew Year: 1900 MATtfRAL ttiSTOnY 0 ^he illustration of the Musmon, given here, will go to show that this belief is well founded aud that all our modern breeds have descended from this first parent, which still exists in the islands of Crete aud Cyprus, aud the mountains of Greece, as well as in Corsica aud Sardinia. It formerly abounded in Spain, and it is from these very localities that the ancient inhabitants of Home procured their choicest fleeces. It is also on record by some of the ancient
The domestic sheep its The domestic sheep : its culture and general management domesticsheepits01stew Year: 1900 MATtfRAL ttiSTOnY 0 ^he illustration of the Musmon, given here, will go to show that this belief is well founded aud that all our modern breeds have descended from this first parent, which still exists in the islands of Crete aud Cyprus, aud the mountains of Greece, as well as in Corsica aud Sardinia. It formerly abounded in Spain, and it is from these very localities that the ancient inhabitants of Home procured their choicest fleeces. It is also on record by some of the ancient Roman writers, and by that ancient naturalist Pliny, that the Musmon was used to cross on the ancient sheep, bred by the Romans for the sake of its fleece, and that the produce of the cross was fertile. But however it may have boon, this we know on ARGALI OF ASIA. the authority of the most ancient records, that of the history of mankind given in the Scriptures, viz: that while the first man, or we may think the first disitinct race of men, were cultivators of the ground, the second were keepers of sheep. In fact the sheep unquestionably was the first domesticated animal, and not so much for its flesh, although we soon find that this was a cho-ice article of food, but for its fleece. In fact we find in the most ancient remains of the earliest human races, that wool was used for clothing, first by the use of the skins of the sheep, and in time that it was spun and woven into cloth. And during all the earliest history of mankind to the present, we find that the sheep has been accounted, at least, an equal part of the wealth of mankind with all other animals or possessions. Moreover we are forced to conclude, as the result of a study of history, that the ancient shepherds who were wanderers, alternately in-
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