The high Estimation of Broad.tailed Sheep. ii 
The Israelites were expressly enjoined to select the best parts 
of the victims for the sacrifices; but he cites Tertullian to 
reproach the Pagans, who placed on the altars of their ialse 
gods the worthless parts, and reserved the best forsthem- 
selves ; contrary to their own sense of propriety. He shews’ 
that the sheep of Syria, Arabia, Persia and the African 
sheep generally, were of the broad-tailed race ; and that the © 
tails oi other sheep were not worthy of consecration. The 
Hebrew word for the Laticauda is. nbx—Aliah ; but that for 
the tails of other animals is 233—Zanab ; and the modern Ara- 
bians preserve the same distinction. In Gree& versions, the 
word ocgiv, and not xexse, or #ea, is used for the Laticauda. He 
- describes the varieties of the Lauticaude ; and adds—* sunt 
hujus modi caudz delicatissimus cibus.”—The tails of these 
sheep are the most delicate food :—and as such were worthy of' 
being devoted to the altar,—to fulfill the express injunctions of 
the scriptures. He produces authority from ancient writers to 
shew, thatjyaccording to the Jewish customs and rites, these 
Laticaude, being “ partes opimas victimarum,” (the richest 
parts of the victims) were thus devoted. So that we find a 
more dignified and pious use for the Latzcauda than that 
of furnishing “‘ plenty of grease for the toilet and the kitchen,” 
of a squalid tender of sheep. ys 
Under the old dispensation, the Jsraelites were bound to 
sacrifice the best parts of the victims; but we are now only 
called upon to lay on the altar, (not in honour of our creator, , 
but for our own purification) the worst parts of ourselves. 
And notwithstanding it is areligious and moral duty, to sacri- 
fice, among those parts, an unwarrantable thirst for gain; yet 
this selfish indulgence sometimes benefits society; althoughthe ° - 
sophisms of the author of the “‘ Fable of the Bees,” are not | 
generally justified. The high prices obtained for merinos have 
roused American enterprize. This crouds into. our ports, and. 
plentifully adds to the wealth of our country (procured from 
the wrecks of the fortunes of their former European oy i 
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