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classes ; those which shear the short or clothmg, and 

 those which shear the long or combing wool. And 

 that the quality of the flesh in each class follows the 

 character of the wool ; the short-wooUed sheep being 

 close in the grain as to flesh, consequently heavy in 

 the scale, and high-flavoured as to the taste ; the 

 polled long-woolled sheep more open and loose in 

 the grain, and larger in size. By the author of 

 ' The present state of Husbandry in Great Britain,' 

 they have been distributed under three general di- 

 visions, as below : 



1. The mountain breed ; 



2. The short-woolled breed ; and 



3. The long-woolled breed. 



And among the first are comprised several varie- 

 ties, as the black-faced, which range on the moun- 

 tains of Wales, Westmoreland, Cumberland, York- 

 shire, and those in the south, west, and north of 

 Scotland, and in the Shetland islands ; the Cheviot 

 hills, in the south of Scotland, and north of England; 

 and the forest and common sheep of the last men- 

 tioned country. In the second division are included 

 those of Hereford, Dorset, Sussex, Norfolk, and 

 some parts of Cumberland. And the third division 

 comprehends all those varieties that are dispersed 

 over the more rich and fertile parts of England, and 

 which are distinguished under the titles of the Dur- 

 ham or Teeswaters, the Lincolnshires, the old and 

 new Leicestershires, &c. But others divide them 

 into long^ short, and middle-woolled kinds. 



23. Teeswater Breed. 



This a breed of sheep said to be the largest in 

 the island ; it is at present the most prevalent in the 

 rich, fine, fertile, inclosed lands on the banks of the 

 Tees in Yorkshire. In tjiis breed, which is sup- 

 posed to be from the same stock as those of the 

 Lincolns, greater attention seems to have been paid- 

 to size than wool. It is, however, a breed only cal- 



