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analogous to it. Such overgrowth of fat is to be counteracted by 

 abridging the quantity of food taken, by abstaining from malt liquors, 

 and by taking constant and regular exercise. Instances are upon 

 record, of persons who have made a sudden and total change in their 

 manner of life, in order to diminish their corpulency ; and this with- 

 out any bad effects : but such sudden transitions from one mode of 

 life to another are not advisable, and it is better to make them 

 Tadually, but steadily. 



FAT-RUMPED SHEEP. 



FAT-HUMPED SHEEP. This is a variety of sheep that has 

 fiom the earliest times inhabited the countries over which the patri- 

 aichal shepherds roamed. It is but little known in Africa, but pre- 

 vails extensively in the north and south of Asia ; is found in Palestine 

 in greater numbers than any other breed, and reaches far into the 

 interior and northern parts of Russia. It is the purest in the deserts 

 of Ureat Tartary, no other variety being near to contaminate its blood. 

 This breed often weighs two hundred pounds, and may be considered 

 the largest of the unimproved sheep ; of which weight the soft oily 

 fat alone that forms the rump amounts to from twenty to forty pounds. 

 In the neighborhood of Caucasus and Taurida, the hind quarters of 

 the sheef are salted as hams, and sent in great quantities to the 

 northern provinces of Turkey In parts of Russia the fat-rumped 



