these climates, being not above three feet in length, and two in height. His horns are about nine inches long, round, and divided into three small branches. His colour is of a brown shade on the back, his face partly black, and partly ash colour, the chest and belly yellow, and the rump white; his tail is short. The Roebuck is more graceful than the Stag, more active, more cunning, and comparatively swifter; his flesh is much esteemed, and his age does not exceed fifteen years. The only parts of Great Britain where he is found, are the Highlands of Scotland.

Is twice as big as a Hart, and bigger than a horse in Norway and Sweden. His horns spread into large broad palms, and he has an excrescence under the throat, the use of which has not yet been explained. He lives in forests, upon branches and sprouts of trees, and is an inhabitant of Europe, Asia, and America.

Is common in Russia and all hyperborean coun tries; he is easily tamed and harnessed to a sledge, which he draws with astonishing swiftness on snow and icy ground; his horns divide at the root, and part of them ascends, the other part being depressed about the ears, which are long and sharp. animals of the deer kind, he has eight fore

Like all

teeth in

"Swift as the trackless winds on frozen fields,
Where hoary winter spreads his ermine robe,
The rapid reindeers flee, and bear away

The sliding sledges; whilst the Lapland dames,
Well fenc'd with native far against the blast,
Sit and direct their emulative flight

Athwart the slipp'ry plains; with brighter rays

Is universally known, his flesh being one of the chief for human food. His wool is of great use for clothing. Although of a moderate size, and well covered, he does not live more than nine or ten years. The Ram is strong and fierce. The Ewe goes with young about twenty weeks, and the lamb has always been an emblem of innocence.

This animal is one of the most useful, that nature ever submitted to the empire of man; and in patriarchal life, the number of Sheep constituted the riches of kings and princes; in fact this animal was so much esteemed for his multifarious good qualities, that the Ram obtained the first place among the signs of the Zodiac, under the Latin name of Aries

THE WALLACHIAN RAM.

THE singular conformation of the horns, which adorn the head of this breed of foreign Sheep, has induced us to insert a figure of the animal in this work. The late Mr. Collinson, a Fellow of the Royal Society in London, sent a drawing of the Ram, and one of the Ewe, to the Count de Buffon, who had them engraved in his first volume of quadrupeds. The horns of the Ewe are twisted also, but not so much as those of the Ram, which describe, near the head, a spiral line. The wool of this species seems to be much longer than that of the common Sheep, and to resemble that of the goat. Buffon regrets, that the death of his friend, Mr. Collinson, had de prived him of a more particular description of this curious animal, which is sometimes called Strepsiceros, from the shape of his horns.

THE MUSMON, OR ARGALI, IN figure somewhat resembles a ram, but his wool

His horns are bent
He is of the size of

is rather like the hair of a goat. backwards, and his tail is short. a small deer, active, swift, wild, and found in flocks in the rocky, dry deserts of Asia, Barbary, and Corsica. His flesh and fat are delicious. He is called also the Siberian Sheep or Goat, and is considered by many as the parent stock of the domestic sheep.

AFTER the cow and the sheep, has been always reckoned, and mostly in ancient and patriarchal times, the most useful domestic animal; indeed the veneration they paid to this creature was supposed so well founded and so great, that they gave it a place in the Zodiac, under the name of Capra, and intrusted to