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quality and weight ; and there is a sort of harshness 

 about it, which shows that the long wool of Ireland 

 was never of good quality." 



In concluding this chapter it may be mentioned 

 that there appears nothing in their physical charac- 

 teristics to preclude all the breeds of British long- 

 tailed sheep being descended from the wild mouflon, 

 all the horned breeds having horns of the general 

 type of those of the mouflon. On the other hand, 

 if the views of Dr. Duerst with regard to the origin 

 of the extinct turbary sheep, referred to in the 

 seventh chapter, be founded on fact, there may be 

 a more or less considerable intermixture of the 

 blood of the wild Asiatic urial in the domesticated 

 breeds of British sheep. 



