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It would give me much more pleasure, and to every farmer 
much more profitable instruction, to assist in diffusing the 
useful and valuable productions of Mr. Livingston, upon 
subjects beneficial to our agriculture and rural cconomy ; 
to the prosperity whereo!, his example, as weli as precepts, 
have most essentially contributed. I think it just, however, 
that if I have misconceived what he has written, I may be 
corrected by his own words. 
R. P. 
Extract from the Essay on sHzEr—their varieties $e, 
Pages, 27, 28. 
“The race of sheep that I shall next notice is one that is 
more extensively diffused than any other, since it is found 
throughout Asia and a great part of Africa, as well as 
through the north-eastern parts of Europe. I refer to the 
broad-tailed sheep. (Ovis aries lati-caudata.) These differ as 
the ordinary European race in the nature of their covering. 
In Madagascar, and some other hot climates, they are hairy, at 
the Cape of Good-Hope they are covered with coarse harsh 
wool ; in the Levant their wool is extremely fine, or in other 
words, they are adapted to the necessities of the people by 
whom they have been changed from their wild to their domes- 
gic state. These sheep are generally larger than those of 
Europe, 1. which circumstance only, and the form and size 
of their tails they differ from them. The broad-tailed sheep 
are of three species. In the one the tail is not only broad, 
but long, and so weighty, that the shepherds are compelled 
to. place two little wheels under it, to enable the sheep to dr drag 
it, These tails are said sometimes to weigh from forty to 
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