WEST DEVONSHIRE. 159 



27, 



SHEEP. 



1. BREED. The ESTABLISHED BREED 



of the Country, whether we examine 

 it on the mountains of Devonlhire and 

 Cornwall, or in the cultivated Country 

 which lies between them, is uniformly of 



the MIDDLE-WOOLED CLASS. 



What is obfervable, however, in defcrib- 

 ing a breed of Sheep, their he ads are vari^ 

 oully charaa:erized : thofe of fome indi^ 

 viduals 2X^ horned, others polled, or hornlefs 

 — provincially "notsj" and between thefe 

 there are, of courfe, individuals bearing a 

 mongrel deformity of head, as if they were 

 really a mongrel breed, of recent debafe- 

 ment. 



Neverthelefs, they have been, beyond 



memory, what 'they appear to be, at pre- 



fent. And what ftrongly corroborates the 



S z idea 



