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v The high Estimation of Broad:tailed Sheep. 
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mals from which they were required should be fat: These 
sheep ( Laticaude_) then, were peculiarly fitted for holy victims; 
the carcasses being rich and fat, and the tails being formed not 
only as “ partes opime,” but as guards against unnatural mix- 
tures with other animals. The cleanness and freedom from 
disease and vermin, established in their original nature, and, 
in a former part of these communications, proved to be now 
continued in the race, perpetuate the goodness and bounty 
of the creator ; who gives to us, in our day, what, in the pri- 
mitive ages, and under the old dispensation, he had devoted 
to himself: not as things which could of themselves delight 
him ; but as testimonies offered in his worship, and proofs of 
homage and submission to his will. 
Those who are not fatigued by the subject (as I confess 
begins to be my own case) may prolong their patience, and 
read (perhaps not unprofitably) the following translation of 
a passage irom Scheuchzer ‘Yom. 1, page 231. 
After enjoining us to devote to the worship of God, our 
best affections, pure hearts, and all the precious propensities 
of our nature and systems, he adds 
‘“‘ So in sacrifices was the fat, which is the most valuable 
fluid of the body. Adeps means a juice or fluid, fat, oleagin- 
ous, congested in certain strainers (sacculis*) and therein, 
after many elaborate and curious processes, secreted ma 
manner highly useful to the animal system. This is the es- 
sence of the nutritive juices, or rather a superfluous nutri- 
tive fluid, which when aliment is deficient, flows back to re- 
cruit the mass of blood and other parts of the system. This 
not only throws light on the text we have undertaken to ex- 
plain, but on others before cited; according to the idiom of 
the language of eastern people. The God of Jsrael would 
* Cells of the membrana adéposa. 
