Extract from Mr. Livingston's Essay on Sheep. 259 - 
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still more valuable among savages, plenty of grease for his 
toilet and his kitchen. This circumstance alone would make © 
him attentive to cherish and propagate the deformity; and 
the rather as he must soon have found that it was attended 
with another important advantage ; the sheep being more 
unwieldy, would be less apt to stray or return to its savage 
state ; an object of considerable importance in the early state 
of society. eet 
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