A Treatise on Sheep; The Best Means for Their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of Their Diseases
A Treatise on Sheep; The Best Means for Their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of Their Diseases
By Ambrose Blacklock
10 Nov, 2018
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HISTORY OF THE SHEEP.
(1.) Origin of the Sheep.—As the origin of our domesticated animals has afforded scope for much curious speculation, so none have attracted a greater degree of attention in this respect than the sheep. In
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HISTORY OF THE SHEEP.
(1.) Origin of the Sheep.—As the origin of our domesticated animals has afforded scope for much curious speculation, so none have attracted a greater degree of attention in this respect than the sheep. Into these arguments, however, it would be absurd to enter; I shall therefore content myself with such opinions as are deemed the best.
Placed in the Class Mammalia, and Order Ruminantia, the innumerable varieties at present existing may, according to Cuvier, whose tact in arranging animals is universally acknowledged, all be referred to four species—the Argali of Siberia, the Mouflon of Sardinia, the Mouflon of America, and the Mouflon of Africa—though to be rigidly accurate in natural distinctions he would refer them all to three, thereby excluding the third. Less