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jubnti of Pliny, natives ot Germany, but 

 which might have been common to the con- 

 tinent, and our ifland. Sibbald fays, that in 

 his time a wild white breed was found in the 

 Scottijh hills ; but differ'd not in form from 

 the common kind. Tame black cattle, in 

 the ifle of Canay, have ilill thin flaring manes 

 along the top of their backs, which reach 

 from the neck up part of the tail. 



SHEEP. 



jB.r. Zool. I. za. Syn. quetd. No. 8. 



£r. Ham Rettke. Ewe Cuoro. Lamb uan. yearling cijg. 



FOUND in ail parts; fcarcer in the 

 North, as the violent rains difagree with 

 them : the fleeces of thofe in the ifland of 

 Jura remarkably fine, otherwife in general 

 coarfe : the beft in the South : the wool 

 fold into the clcathing parts of Torkjhire. 

 Multitudes of Iheep reared in EJk-Bak, and 

 ihe other Deks : are a great article of com- 

 merce : much cheefe made from their milk : 

 in general their faces and legs black j their 

 teeth in-fome places, -as Boethius truly fay.', of 

 a goH color ; that is to fay covered with a 

 yellov/ fyritkal cruft : I never happened to 

 meet with this accident in Iheep, but have 

 in thofe t>f oxen feeding in certain meadows 

 in S'lmr-Athcl. 



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