| Description | Lea describes sheep and lambs raised in Tartaria [Tartary], comparing them to 'the lambs of England'. He tells the story of the lambs growing out of stalks 'like the stalk of an artichoak [sic]' in the ground, and eating the grass that surrounds them. He describes how lambskin is believed to protect against plague and disease.
Subject: Zoology / Folklore
Read to the Royal Society on 22 August 1666 |