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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 







SOW OF THE IMPROVED BREED. 



BY a mixture of the Chinese black Swine with 

 others of the larger British breed, a kind has been 

 produced which possesses many qualities superior 

 to either of the original stocks. They are -very pro- 

 lific, are sooner made fat than the larger kind, upon 

 less provisions, and cut up, when killed, to more 

 useful and convenient portions. 



Our figure was taken from a Sow of this kind, in 

 the possession of Arthur Mowbray, Esq., of Sher- 

 burn, in the county of Durham. She had a litter 

 of nineteen pigs to support at the time, which was 

 the third within ten months : the whole amounted, 

 in that time, to fifty pigs. 



The Chinese or black breed is now very common 

 in England. They are smaller, have shorter legs, 

 and their flesh is whiter and sweeter than the com- 

 mon kind. 



A kind similar to this were those found in New 

 Guinea, which proved so seasonable a relief to our 

 circumnavigators, when that country was first 



