The hi^h Estimation of Broad-tailed Sheep. 



mals ^rom which they were required should be tat. These 

 sheep C Laticaudce J then, were peculiarly fitted for holy victims; 

 the carcasses being rich and lat, and the tails being formed not 

 only as '•'• partes opiuice^'* but as guards against unnatural mix- 

 tures with other animals. The cleanness and freedom from 

 disease and vermin, established in their original nature, and, 

 in a former part of these communications, proved to be now 

 continued in the race, perpetuate the goodness and bounty 

 of the creator ; who gives to us, in our day, what, in the pri- 

 mitive ages, and under the old dispensation, he had devoted 

 to himself: not as things which could of themselves delight 

 him ; but as testimonies offered in his worship, and proofs of 

 homage and submission to his will. 



Those who are not fatigued by the subject (as I confess 

 begins to be my own case) ma}' prolong their patience, and 

 read (perhaps not unprofitably) the following translation of 

 a passage from Scheuchzer Tom. 1, page 231. 



After enjoining us to devote to the worship of God, our 

 best affections, pure hearts, and all the precious propensities 

 of our nature and systems, he adds 



" So in sacrifices was the fat^ which is the most valuable 

 fluid of the body, Adeps means a juice or fluid, fat, oleagin- 

 ous, congested in certain strainers fsacculis^J and therein, 

 after many elaborate and curious processes, secreted in a 

 manner highly useful to the animal system. This is the es- 

 sence of the nutritive juices, or rather a superfluous nutri- 

 tive fluid, which ivheii aliment is deficient^ f.oxvs hack to re- 

 cruit the mass of blood and other parts of the system. This 

 .not only throws light on the text we have undertaken to ex- 

 plain, but on others before cited ; according to the idiom of 

 the language of eastern people. The God of Israel would 



* Cells of the mnnHrana adipose. 



