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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



A WEDDER OF MR. CULLEY'S BREED. 



WE are favoured, by Mr. Culley, with the follow- 

 ing account of a Wedder of his breed, fed at Fenton, 

 in Northumberland, and killed at Alnwick, in Octo- 

 ber, 1787, when four years old: his dimensions 

 were as follow: Girt, four feet eight inches and a 

 half; breadth over his shoulders, one foot three 

 inches; over his middle, one foot seven inches and 

 a quarter; across the breast, from the inside of one 

 fore leg to the inside of the other, nine inches. At 

 the dividing of the quarters, through the ribs, it 

 measured seven inches and one-eighth of solid fat, 

 cut straight through without any slope; and his 

 mutton was of the most beautiful bright colour. 

 But in nothing was he so remarkable as in the 

 smallness of his bones. The proprietor of this 

 Sheep laments that he had not the offals exactly 

 weighed (by offals, we would be understood to mean 

 not only the tallow, but the head, pluck, and pelt, 

 with the blood and entrails) ; because it is now well 



