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Rh We would incite the attention of our citizens to this important discovery; for although the Spanish missionaries, in 1697, made mention of this sheep, and it is again noticed in Venegas' History of California, yet these accounts were discredited. It is to captain Lewis to whom belongs the honour of having been the first to assure his countrymen, by the exhibition of a genuine specimen, that the animal does exist. How subservient to the wants and pleasures of mankind it may be rendered by domestication, we cannot at present declare; but there is room for conjecture, that the introduction of this new species of a race of quadrupeds immemorially ranked among the most valuable of the gifts of the Creator, will confer a lasting benefit upon the agricultural and manufacturing interests of the community.

Since writing the foregoing, I have seen the three first volumes of the Nouveau Dictionnare d'Histoire Naturelle, which work is now publishing in Paris; and in the article Antelope I find a description of an American quadruped, which is in the collection of the Linnean society of London. This description appears to have been extracted from a memoire, read before the Philomatique Society of Paris, by M. de Blainville, wherein the author proposes a new arrangement of the ruminants with hollow and persistent horns, and a subdivision of the Genus Antilope; and classes the above animal under the name of Rupicapra Americana. (Bulletin de la Societe' Philomatique, 1816, p. 80.) As I have not the satisfaction of seeing the Bulletin, I must be content with the information conveyed in the article in the Nouveau Dictionnaire. The speciment is said to be of the bigness of a middling sized goat; the