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.coarfefi grafles ; a pafture on which, perhaps s 

 every other breed of Iheep of this kingdom 

 would ftarve. 



The Moreland fheepare probably of Scotch 

 extraction : they refemble much the Scotch 

 ilieep which are fometimes brought into the 

 Vale : their horns wide ; the face black or 

 mottled ; in countenance and general appear- 

 ance very much refembling the Norfolk 

 breed ; except that their wool is fomewhat 

 longer, and much coarfer, than that of the 

 Norfolk Iheep. The covering of their but- 

 tocks is mere hair, refembling the fhag of the 

 goat, rather than the wool of meep^ But this 

 is confklered as a mark of hardinefs ; and the 

 Moor-dale Ihepherds arc faid to prefer a 

 coarfe-wooled fhaggy tup. The carcafes of 

 thefe fheep are fmall ; not much larger than 

 the heath Iheep of Norfolk : the ewes, mo- 

 derately fatted, weighing from feven to ten 

 pounds ; the wedders ten to fourteen pounds 

 a quarter. 



II. REARING. The common time of put- 

 ting ewes to the ram, in the Vale, is from 

 old Michaelmas to the-'latter end of October ; 

 bringing them in the latter end of March, or 



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