316^. NORFOLK. 36$ 



farms, upon which over-year flocks are kept. 

 But Eafl-Norfolk farms, in general, are, in 

 the months of July, Auguft, and September, 

 as free from fheep as elephants ; — except, per- 

 haps, fome few kept on until harveft for, 

 what is called, " harvefl-beef ;" namely, to 

 be killed for the v/ork-people in harveft. 



In and round the park of Gunton, a confi- 

 derable flock was kept ; and it is chiefly from 

 obfervations on this flock, that I gained my 

 information refpeding the Norfolk breed of 

 flieep. 



The BREED of Norfolk horfes was not for- 

 merly, nor its breed of cattle at prefent^ more 

 Angular than is its breed of sheep j which, 

 it is highly probable, has long been preferred 

 in purity ; — ^-I mean without adventitious mix- 

 ture of blood. 



There are two varieties of this species of 

 flieep : the one larger (weighing from fif- 

 teen to twenty-five pounds a quarter j which is 

 the common flock of the county : — the other 

 fmaller (from ten to fifteen pounds a quarter), 

 which are bred chiefly upon the heaths in the 

 neighbourhood of Brandon and Methwold, in 

 the fouth-weil quarter of the county. Thefe go 



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