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with a wie and provident care gave to every animal originally either force to repel, peed to ecape, or cunning to evade its more formidable enemies, as a means of preerving the continuance of her various productions. Of ueful animals the weak were firt reduced to the ervices of man, maller animals more readily adopting the influence of education. Thus the Sheep and Goat were firt brought to uefulnes, before the robut Ox, or vigorous Hore; this may be conidered as one principal caue of the endles variety of uch as have been long and particularly attended to by man; and the power of continued education, joined to the influence of climate and oil, make it difficult to ay, which are the true characteritic marks, or which the original of many pecies.

The Mouflon is conidered as the Sheep in a tate of nature, by Mr. Buffon, with a temper not broken by ervitude, a contitution not oftened by inactivity and luxury. With a vigorous mind it defends itelf againt the attacks of larger animals, and, aided by a robut body, frequently overcomes formidable enemies.

The abode of the Mouflon is in rocky countries, where they bound from rock to rock, or climb the apparent inacceible precipices with that addres and eae, which characterize the Goat and Deer tribes, and which sets puruit at defiance. The horns of the Mouflon are very broad at the bae, are firmly fixed upon the kull, inclining backward with a coniderable curvature, the ditance increaing to the extremities; the horns, of a light brown or yellow, are girt with many annuli or rings; in the male they frequently grow to very large dimenions, and weigh ometimes thirty pounds; and, when broken off, as in defence, or by other accident, often erve as a net, or retreat, for various mall quadrupeds, uch as young foxes, &c.

There is a beautiful form in this animal, which approaches very cloe to the Deer; indeed by ome it is eteemed the ame as the old or original Welch Deer; however, the hape of the head, and the truncated horns, which are never hed, rather mark it of the Sheep tribe. The major part of the body is of a fine brown coloured hair, which on the lower part of the neck and chet grows to a coniderable length; the belly, legs, and outer part of the haunches are white.

Inhabits the warmer parts of Europe, uch as Greece, the Ile of Cyprus, Sardinia, and Corica; they alo are found in great numbers in the outhern and mountainous parts of Siberia, a climate rather cold than temperate; grows to the ize of a young tag. The meaurement of the one here drawn was three feet from the noe to the rump, and two feet and a half from the houlder downward.