ABSTRACT

THere i s in Crete neer the Mountain Ida, a kinde of Sheep called by the Shepherds Strepficeros, which is not different f rom the vulgar Sheep, except only in the horns, for they bend not like o ther , but ftand ftraight and upright like the Unicorn, and befides are circled about with certain round fpeers like a Goats horn. Thisl ivethin flocks, and we have here befides the figure of the beaft, expreffed a double form of their horns, and fore part of their head, the figure of a Harpe being faftned to one of them as it was prefently drawn. The defcription whereof was taken by D o d o r Cay of England^ in thefe words following.