268 SHEEP. 



in fadx produced : for, being accuilomed to 

 it, from their earliell: age, no alarm appears 

 to take place. They will even follow the 

 Shepherd about, as if they were fenfible of 

 his care- and protedlion. Such being the 

 efFefts of habit, over ahnoft every fpecies 

 of the animal kingdom, v/hen it is early 

 induced, and when it is brought on by the 

 example of parents, or intimates of riper 

 years. 



The SUMMER KEEP of Shccp, in the 

 ordinary practice of the Diftridt, confills 

 chiefly of the commons and rough paftures 

 of the low country, or of the hills of Dart- 

 more ; to which Sheep are driven, in the 

 fummer feafon, from a confiderable diftance. 

 Even fome of the larger flocks are fent 

 thither; efpecially, in a dry feafon, when 

 the cultivated upland leys are burnt up. 

 In WINTER, ' they are of courle brought 

 back to the inclofures -, and to fuch keep 

 as the Farmer can find for them. Snow 

 feldoin lying long, on the lower grounds 

 of this Diftrid:, very little hay, I underftand^ 

 is given to ftore Sheep. 



A ftriking feature in the management of 



Sheep:, 



