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when Admiral Ca<vendtfi, a few Years ago, acquainted Him, 

 t!:at He had a Hampfiire Cow aboard the Canterbury^ (then 

 in the Road oi Algiers,) which gave a Gallon of Milk a Day : 

 a Quantity equal to what half a dozen of the beft Barharj Cows 

 would yield in the fame Time. The Barbary Cattle likewife 

 have another Imperfeftion, that they always lofe their Calves 

 and their Milk together. 



The Sheep and the Goats contribute alfo to the Dairies of^'' sheep 

 this Country; it being chiefly of their Milk, that the Moors"" 

 and Arabs make Cheefe. Inftead of Runnet, they make ufe, 

 (in the Summer Seafon particularly,) of the Flowers of the great 

 headed Thiftle or wild Artichoak, to turn the Milk ; putting 

 the Curds, thus made, into fmall Baskets of Ruflies or Talmeta, 

 and binding them afterwards and preffing them. I have rarely r-6«vcheefe, 

 feen any of thefe Cheefes above two or three Pound Weight, 

 being ufually of the Shape and Size of a Penny Loaf; fuch 

 perhaps , as we may fuppofe thofe ten to have been, which 

 Τ>α<υΊά' carried, with other Provifions, to the Camp of Saul. 

 They have no other Method of making Butter than by puttings Butter, 

 their Milk or Cream into a Goat's Skin ; which, being fuipend- 

 ed from one Side of the Tent to the other and preiTed to and 

 fro in one uniform Direftion, quickly occafioneth that Separa- 

 tion which is required of the unduous and whayie Parts. 



The Goat is the fame with that of other Countries; hut ne^ro^d- 

 They have two Sorts of Sheep, which are not known in E^J"'^"^^'"'^- 

 rope. One of them, which is common all over the Levant, 

 as well as the Kingdom of Tunis, is noted for a broad Tail^ 

 Avhich endeth in fome of Them in a Point, but, in others' 

 continueth broad quite down to the Bottom. The Mutton of 

 this Species tafteth generally of the Wool : neither hath It the 

 tender Fibres of the fmaller tailed Sheep: yet the Tail itfelf is 

 greatly efteemed in their Cufcajowes and Tilloes, confifting 

 of a hard folid Fat, not inferiour in Tafte to Marrow. The r^, ^^,,^ ,/ 

 other Species, which is bred in the Neighbourhood oiGaddemz/'"^'^^'^' 

 Wurglah, and other Places of the Sahara, is near as tall as our 

 Fallow Deer; and, excepting the Head, not much different in 

 Shape. The Heat of the Climate, the Scarcity of Water, 

 with the Coarfnefs of the Herbs they feed upon, may be the' 

 Occafion perhaps, why their Fleih is dry to the Palate, and 

 their Fleeces are as coarfe and hairy as the Goats. 



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