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stood thicker than on No. 1, and often seemed vastly 

 thicker when grasped, by the hand externally, by rea- 

 son of its gummy coating. I saw some, however, 

 which, under this gummy coating, had thinnish wool. 

 The quality and style of the wool were excellent. Its 

 carves were especially bold and showy, and were con- 

 tinued regularly throughout the entire length of the 

 fibre, showing even on the tips. The fleece had great 

 evenness, and nothing approaching to hair in any part. 

 The sheep had not the appearance of being as hardy 

 or as easily kept as No. 3. To my eye they looked 

 like animals which had attained great uniformity and 

 strong points of excellence by in-and-in breeding, but 

 that this had been carried so far that they were on the 

 point of losing constitution. It would seem, however, 

 that this opinion was unfounded, for we now have 

 flocks of their unmixed descendants which, after twenty 

 years more of in-and-in breeding, have been converted 

 into low, compact, strong, heavy, and hardy sheep. 



3. The American Paulars. They were purchased 

 of the importer by Andrew Cock, a breeder of charac- 

 ter residing near Flushing, Long Island.* They were 

 sold in 1823 to Hon. Charles Eich, M. C., and Leon- 

 ard Bedell, of Shoreham, Yermont. Twenty years 

 ago they were heavy, low, broad skeep, full in the 

 bosom and buttocks, with strong bones, thick short 

 necks, and thick coarse heads. . The ewes had deep, 

 pendulous, and sometimes plaited dewlaps, and folds 

 of moderate size about the neck the rams had both 

 in a greater degree. The external color of the fleece 



* Their full pedigree, sustained by the most ample testimony tes- 

 timony never since disputed was published in the American Agri- 

 culturist and Cultivator, hi 1844. 



