'793' account of the fat rutnped JJjecp. 19c 



gathers upon the rump of this variety of fneep, is of 

 a soft ody nature, very different from suet; which 

 refutes the opinion of those who afsert, that rumi- 

 nating animals never generate any other species ol 

 fat but suet*. 



Immtdiately after the last inquiry, the doctor en- 

 ters upon a second learned disquisition on the tail 

 of the Bi-uchanan fhcep, which make his fourth and 

 last Variety : but tor the reasons urged before, I 

 fhall content myself with merely giving the substance, 

 when I enter on the next article, to which it proper- 

 ly belongs ; at the same time that I am convinced 

 the anatomist and zooiogist will be much pleased 

 with the whole. 



The doctor next proceeds to fhow that a defect or 

 disease in Iheep, may be transmitted through many 

 generations ; gives a figure of one, where a defect ia 

 the nose of a ram, poLibly at first accidental, is trans- 

 mitted to a whole breed ; as is a hump on the back, 

 of another race of fneep, reared with much care in 

 Perhia. Dr Pallas pursues the same subject of here- 

 ditary defects in other animals ; and mentions a 



This inquiry is likewise different from that wliicli tends to discoJ 

 •ver the lies, mode of treating animals so as to promote the general 

 fattening of the whole body in a fliort space of time, an example of 

 which was also given in the Bee, (vol. 15th p. 73.) in regard to the 

 management of poultry ; where an ecpnomical practice of very 

 great importance is developed with much perspicuity. Edit. 



* Those who are well acquainted with' full fed old Scotch mutton, 

 and Higtilaiid beef, i.now very well, that there is abundance of fat 

 interspersed among the flefli of both these sorts of meat, extremely dif- 

 itrent from suet. Edit. 



