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Proofs of the Originality, and high Estimation, of Broad- 
tailed Sheep. 
- Having found, for some years past, that old wine is not to 
me the milk of old age, I have contented mysel: under the 
privation ; but have not parted with a moderate share of re- 
lish for old books. The oldest and the best oi all books, and. 
the commentaries of some o! its most instructive annotators, 
afford most satisfactory proois of the originality of the broad- 
tailed sheep. The discovery of the animal, or its uses, were 
not left to the fortuitous observation of an ignorant shepherd; 
nor was the tail devoted to “ the toilet and the kitchen,” of the 
occasional tenant of a mud-built hovel. The learned, splendid, 
and instructive work of scHEUCHZER, entituled “PpHysica sa- 
cRA,” printed at Ulm in Germany nearly 80 years ago, will fur- 
nish to those who have the curiosity to turn to it, a full account 
of the ovEs LATICAUD#.* In the plates cc1v. ccv. Tom. 1, 
pages 232, 3, there are drawings ot these sheep (one very 
like my ewe No. 2) and of the ceremonies in placing the 
tails on the altars, by the priests of the Israelites. These 
plates would do credit to a modern engraver. They are in- 
tended to elucidate his learned commentary on the 22 verse, 
of chapter 29, of Exodus. The whole work is calculated to 
prove the agreement in the accounts given by the sacred 
writers#with what is known in modern times, in natural his- 
tory, and the arts and sciences; whereof this extensive and 
amusing work, embraces the whole circle of knowledge in his | 
time. 
The words in our translation are, “‘ and thou shalt take of 
the ram, the fat and the rump ;” which Scheuchzer translates 
from the Hebrew “ Tolles quoque adipem de ariete, et cau- 
dam.” ‘Thou shalt take the fat ot the ram and (its tail.” 
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* Broadtailed sheep. 
