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REMARKS 



ON THE 



MORBID APPETITE OF BREEDING EWES, 



IN SEVERAL PARTS OF THE COLONY OF 



NEW SOUTH WALES, 



MORE PARTICULARLY ORSERVED ABOUT 



THE MURRUMBIDGEE COUNTRY, 



OCCASIONED BY EATING EARTH IMPREGNATED WITH SOME 

 ALKALINE SALTS. 



(See Page 220, Vol. \.) 



On account of the morbid appetite existing in the 

 sheep, which I am about to relate, their natural 

 innocent dispositions are changed ; they become 

 carnivorous and savage ; and it is difficult to drive 

 them away from the pits in which earth im- 

 pregnated with alkaline salts may be situated ; 

 although, when taken to di fresh run, they proceed 

 feeding as usual, until this salt earth is again dis- 

 covered, when they became addicted to the 

 unnatural custom of devouring their lambs. 

 On discovering one of the pits, they rush to it 



