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laft a near approach to it. This is now trying here 

 between the Norfolk and the South-Downs ; and 

 promifes a breed that may unite very tolerable 

 wool with a very fine carcafej equally proper for 

 the fold and artificial pafturage ; of a bulk fuperior 

 to the South-Downs, inferior to the Norfolk, but 

 fmaller in the bone, rounder in the form, tamer 

 in difpofition, and thriving with equal profit on 

 lefs food. 



From the drawing and defcription o{ the Mouffloriy 

 a wild fheep of Tartary, and fuppofed by fome na- 

 turalifts to be the primitive race ; the Norfolk, of 

 all our fpecies, feems moft like this original. A 

 lean long head, large curved horns, a rifing back- 

 bone; when {landing, the fore-legs ftraight, the 

 hinder bent inwards, flrong in his whole make, 

 agile in his movements, and in look wild and bold. 

 Neither this, nor any other provincial fort, have 

 been attempted to be reared to an higher degree of 

 perfection, by perfeverance in culling, preferving, 

 and occafionally crofling the more peculiarly per- 

 fe6b ones of the breed, till the Leicefterlhire Society 

 aftonilhed the kingdom, and I may fay, all Europe, 

 with their (kill in the trial, their fuccefs in the event, 

 and the incredible return to their perfeverance and 

 fagacity, from the price paid by thofe who moft 



laudably 



