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criminated, and which is now confounded by the 

 strong scent of the tar that is used in marking 

 them. The brute creation certainly recognize 

 each other much more from the smell than the 

 sight; and, in matters of identity and diversity, 

 they appeal greatly more to their noses than their 

 eyes. In the present case, the voice is exerted to 

 supply the defect ; and the young animals are not 

 long before they are able to ascertain their parents, 

 and the parents their offspring, by the test of 

 this. 



With respect to the services of these animals to 

 mankind, it has been frequently remarked, that 

 there is no part of the Sheep but what is applied 

 to some useful purpose. The wool, as I have 

 already observed, furnishes sources of industry 

 and wealth to many thousands of people; and it 

 serves to clothe, and protect from cold, both the 

 labourer and the prince. The flesh supplies us 

 with an highly wholesome and palatable nutriment ; 

 and the milk is in great esteem amongst the pea- 

 santry of all countries where Sheep are bred. This, 

 however, (though not deficient in thickness,) is 

 said to yield but little cream ; and that cream gives 

 butter of a quality greatly inferior to what is ob- 

 tained from the milk of Cows. But it is to be re- 

 marked, that the same measure of Ewes' milk will 

 yield double the quantity of curd that ,our Cows' 

 milk affords. The skin, when stripped of the wool 

 and tanned, is in great request, particularly by 



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