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It would give me much more pleasure, and to ever}'' farmer 

 much more profitable instruction, to assist in dijOfusing the 

 useful and valuable productions of Mr. Livingston, upon 

 subjects beneficial to our agriculture and rural ceconomy ; 

 to the prosperity whereof, his example, as well as precepts, 

 have most essentially contributed. I think it just, however, 

 that if I have misconceived what he has written, I may be 

 corrected by his own words* 



R. P. 



Extract from the Essay 07i sheep — their varieties ^c* 

 Pages, 27, 28. 



" The race of sheep that I shall next notice is one that is 

 more extensively diffused than any otlier^ since it is found 

 throughout Asia and a great part of Alrica, as well as 

 through the north-eastern parts of Europe. I reter to the 

 broad-tailed sheep, (Ovis aries lati-caudataj These differ as 

 the ordinary European race in the nature of their covering. 

 In Madagascar, and some other hot climates, they are Aairz/, at 

 the Cape of Good-Hope they are covered with coarse harsh 

 wool ; in the Levant their wool is extremely fine, or in other 

 words, they are adapted to the necessities of the people by 

 whom they have been changed from their wild to their domes- 

 tic state. These sheep are generally larger than those of 

 Europe^ in which circumstance only, and the form and size 

 of their tails they differ from them. The broad-tailed sheep 

 are of three species. In the one the tail is not only broad, 

 but long, and so weighty, that the shepherds are compelled 

 to place two little wheels under it, to enable the sheep to drag 

 it. These tails are said sometimes to weigh from forty to 



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