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the reader may confult part ii. chap. 2. of Mr. Lowman's 

 Rationale of the Hebrew Ritual. 



Toland, in hi-- Tetradymus, has attempted to prove, that 

 this appearance had nothing miraculous in it, but was only 

 a kind of beacon, ufed by the Ifraelites for their direflion 

 in their jiiurney. 



SHED Building, in Af^ricuhure, a term applied to any 

 fort of flight temporary building. 



Shed, Open, a iort of flight open building, for containing 

 cattle, and various other ufes in the farm-yard. See Cattle 

 Shid. 



Shed, in Rural Economy, a term fignifying to part, with 

 the fingers and thumb, wool, hair, &c. as in falving (heep. 



SHEDDING of the Hair, in horfes, is the calling of 

 the coat. Sec Moulting. 



SHEDIAC, in Geography, a harbour on the E. coafl 

 of New Brunfwick. 



SHEDMA, a province of Morocco, containing 550,000 

 inhabitants. This province produces wheat and barley ; 

 its fruits are not fo rich as thofe of the north, or of Sufe ; 

 it abounds however in cattle. Of goats it furnifhes annually 

 an incalculable number, the fl<ins of which form a principal 

 article of exportation from the port of Mogodor ; and inch 

 are often the animofity and oppolition among the merchants 

 there, that they have fometimes given as much for the flcin, 

 as the animal itfelf was fold for. Honey, wax, and tobacco 

 are produced in this province ; the two former in great 

 abundance ; alfo gum arable, called by the Arabs " Alk 

 tolh," but of an inferior quality to that of the Morocco 

 diftria. 



SHEDUAN, an ifland in the Red fea, about nine miles 

 long and fix broad. It is high and craggy, without wood 

 or water ; it is fituated at about an equal diltance between 

 the two coafts of Egypt and Arabia. N. lat. 27° 34'. 



SHEEDWOOD, in Rural Economy, provincially rough 

 poles of top wood. See Wood. 



SHEEHY MouNTAlN.s, in Geography, the name of a 

 range of mountains in the barony of Mulkerry, and weftern 

 part of the county of Cork, in Ireland. Of thefe and other 

 mountains along the ceinfines of Kerry, it is obferved by 

 Mr. Tcwnfend, in his Statillical Survey, that though fome- 

 times high, they generally want grandeur, and that the in- 

 termediate hollows are feldom marked with ilriking or ro- 

 mantic fcenery. The adjoining lands are rude, rugged, and 

 ftony in the extreme, with a very fcanty intermixture of 

 any thing fair or fertile to relieve the eye amidll fucli a 

 dreary wafle. 



SHEELAMOOLA, a town of Hindooftan, in Coim- 

 betore ; 14 miles S. of Erroad. 



SHEELIN, or, as Arrowfmith fpells it, Shillin, a lake 

 on the fouth of the county of Cavan, Ireland, fituated 

 between it and the counties of Meath and Weftmeath. The 

 river Inny flows from this lake, of which Mr. Edgewortli 

 has faid, in his report to the Bog commiHioncrs, that it is 

 in many places a fine deep river, and capable of being ren- 

 dered navigable at a fmall expencc, and to great national ad- 

 vantage. 



SHEEP, in Zoology. See Ovis. 



Sheep, in Agriculture and Rural Economy, a well- 

 known fpecies or kind of live-ltock kept by the farmer. 

 The flieep belongs to the clafs of ruminant animals, or fuch 

 as chew the cud, and of which there are different fpecies, 

 and varieties or breeds. And in its generic charafter it is 

 diftinguiflied by being with or without horns, v/hich are 

 hollow, wrinkled, turning backward, or intorted in a fpiral 

 manner. Eight front teeth in the lower jaw, in the upper 

 none. 6 



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It is evident that flieep are animals of the utmoft im- 

 portance to mankind, whetlier confidered in the light of 

 affording food and clothing, or in that of the vafl improve- 

 ment and profit which thty produce in the various fvftems 

 of management to which they are fulijt ded by the farmer ; 

 in fome inllances conftituting a very large proportion, and 

 in others nearly the whole of his dependence and liipport. 

 There is alfo another point of view in which they appear 

 equally advantageous and interefting, which is that of their 

 becoming thus beneficial in fit nations and upon lands that 

 mull otherwife be nearly if not wholly ufelef?. Alfo in the 

 view of affording the raw material for one of the moft cx- 

 tenfive Itaple manufaftures of the kingdom, the advantages 

 which they afford are almoft incalculable. 



But befidcs the wool, the fldiis and other parts of thefe 

 animals afford a variety of other equally ufeful and im- 

 portant articles and produfts, fuch as thofe of parchment, 

 leather, glue, fuel, and many others, which are of great 

 value for different intentions and purpofes in the arts and 

 other ways, and which employ a great number of labourers 

 in forming and preparing them. In fhoit, there is hardly a 

 part of the flieep that does not afford an ufeful and valuable 

 produift of fome fort or other. In ufefulnefs they may, of 

 courfc, be placed at leafl next to, if not before, the cow. 

 In difpofition, almotl all the improved breeds are extn-mely 

 mild, tame, and gentle, which is a proof of their value as 

 grazing flock : but thole which have been lefs attended to, 

 or which continue more in their native or original flate, are 

 much lefs tradable, as thofe which inhabit the downs, 

 heaths, and mountains in different parts of the ifland. 



The character of llupidity, want of fagacity, and of fome 

 other valuable properties, which the naturaliil Buffon has 

 given thefe animals, feems by no means well-founded. It 

 is probably the offspring of prejudice, and the improper 

 examination of the fubjeft. 



The increafe or growth of the fheep continues to advance 

 till at leafl three years old, when it is in general confidered 

 as in the mofl proper flate for the purpofes of the grazier, 

 though it is employed in this way till a much later period, 

 fometimes even till five or fix, and alfo with the view of 

 breeding ; but an early maturity is a property of much 

 confcquence, efpccially for the grazier. Of fhecp, the 

 breeds or varieties that are dii'perfcd over the globe are 

 almoft endlefs ; even in this country tiiey are fo extremely 

 numerous as fcarcely to be defcribed with any coireftnefs. 

 The charadleriflic circumflanccs by which they iiave been 

 chiefly diilinguinicd, are thofe of tlieir poiliffing horns, or 

 being wholly without them, and from the length or fliortnefs 

 andfinenels of the wool or coat, as well as the fit nation in which 

 they are chiefly found. It has been Hated by lord Somer- 

 ville, in his " Syllem of the Board of Agriculture," that all 

 the breeds of flieep in this kingdom may be arranged into 

 two chifies ; thofe which fliear the fliort or clothing, and 

 thofe which fliear the long or combing wool. And that 

 the quality of the flefli in each clafs foUovi's the cliaraiSer 

 of tlie wool ; the fliort-woolled fheep being clofe in the 

 grain a'; to flefli, confequently heavy in the fcalc, and high- 

 flavoured as to the talte ; the polled long-vi'oolled flieep 

 more open and loofe in the grain, and larger in lizo. And 

 by ttic author of " Tlie prefent State of Hufljandry in 

 Great Britain," they have been diflributcd under three 

 general divifions, as below : 



1. The mountain breed ; 



2. The fhort-woolled breed ; and 



3. The long-woolled breed. 



And among the firft are comprifed feveral varieties, as 

 the black-faced, which range on the mountains of AVales, 



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