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month, and weighed alive twenty-fix (lone, at 

 fourteen pounds to the (lone. He gained on- 

 ly one pound the laft month. As ic was thence 

 concluded that he had got to the top and was 

 quite ripe, and might polTibly lofe weight the 

 next month, he was killed on the 13th day of 

 Odober, 179 1, by Mr. Ifaac Lumby, of 

 Bicker, being then a four-fhear, or four-year- 

 old fheep. 



The fl<:in, hung up by the nofe, meafured 

 ten feet two inches, from the point of the nofc 

 to the tip of the tail, and. was fold for feven 

 (hillings and fix pence in the common courfe 

 of bufinefs. 



The carcafe meafured five feet, from the nofe 

 to the tail 5 the rump or cufliion eight inches and 

 a half in depth; plate or fore-flank the fame 

 thicknefs ; bread end feven inches ; one yard 

 five inches and a half round the collar, and 

 weighed fixty-feven pounds a quarter, Avoir- 

 dupoife weight. 



The legs were eftimated at forty pounds 

 weight each ; but, if cut haunch of venifon 

 fafhion, would have weighed fifty pounds 

 each ; for which the proprietor, Mr. Lumby, 



was 



