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capital; as, in cafe of accident, you in aM 

 probability have the chance of feveral lives, 

 and the original coft is but trifling. 



SECTION XXXI. 



Defcription cf the left Sort of Sheep, with In- 

 ftruttions for Breeding them; the Sort of 

 IVool required^ and how to promote the 

 Growth of it. 



THE Difhley fheep are without difpute the 

 bed. The breed is now fo univerfally fpread 

 over this iiland, that it might be thought fuper- 

 fiuous to defcribe them -, but as this work may 

 poflibly be read in other countries befides Eng- 

 land, I think it neceflary to give a fketch of 

 this very ufeful animal* A true Difhley Iheep 

 from the top of the back, that is, from head to 

 tail, refembles the back of a tortoife; the head 

 is fmall ; the neck or crag particularly fo, 

 and fo fhort that, when the flieep is hung up 

 by the heels, you cannot fee any neck; the 

 fat and flefh fo completely covering it that the 

 fore-quarter appears as if joined to the head. 

 The bread is remarkably wide or broad ; the 



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