On Tunis Sheep. 235 
These victuallers, and others, vouch for another fact. The 
Tunis lambs and sheep, under, or arriving at, yearlings, fat 
as fast as any others at maturity. 
I have been a victualler in the Philadelphia market very 
many years. (Above 30) I kill as good, and as many sheep 
of all breeds, as most butchers in the market. The vending 
of mutton is my chief employment. I have seen the certificate 
oi George Lentz and William Rusk, relative to the Tunis 
sheep irom Judge Peters’s stock. My experience of the 
general character, weight, ‘and fatting of the sheep, agrees 
with theirs. Save that I have known some sheep, especially 
some of the Leicester breed. from Jersey, lay on iat as well. _ 
The lambs are always fine; and the, fat as well dispersed 
through the carcase of the sheep, as any other breed I have 
met with. The fat is always white; and the colour of the 
meat, the best of any mutton I know. Witness my hand, 
21st May 1810. Signed, 
JoserpH GRorr. 
Test. THomAs Bones. 
Mr. Groff farther observed—That the hind quarters al- 
ways weighed peculiarly the heaviest. This was accounted 
for by the weight of the tail. Few aged wethers have been 
killed ; the fine rams having been kept for breeders ; and too 
many of the lambs killed. 
