%6 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
stood thicker than on No. 1, and often seemed vastly 
thicker when grasped by the hand externally, by rea- 
son of its gummy coating. I saw some, however, 
which, under this gummy coating, had thinnish wool. 
The quality and style of the wool were excellent. Its 
carves were especially bold and showy, and were con- 
tinued regularly throughout the entire length of the 
fibre, showing even on thetips. The fleece had great 
evenness, and nothing approaching to hair in any part. 
The sheep had not the appearance of being as hardy 
or as easily kept as No. 3. To my eye they looked 
like animals which had attained great uniformity and 
strong points of excellence by in-and-in breeding, but 
that this had been carried so far that they were on the 
point of losing constitution. It would seem, however, 
that this opinion was unfounded, for we now have 
flocks of their unmixed descendants which, after twenty 
years more of in-and-in breeding, have been converted 
into low, compact, strong, heavy, and hardy sheep. 
38. The American Paulars. They were purchased 
of the importer by Andrew Cock, a breeder of charac- 
ter residing near Flushing, Long Island.* They were 
sold in 1823 to Hon. Charles Rich, M. C., and Leon- 
ard Bedell, of Shoreham, Vermont, Twenty years 
ago they were heavy, low, broad sseep, full in the 
bosom and buttocks, with strong bones, thick_ short 
necks, and thick coarse heads. The ewes had deep, 
pendulous, and sometimes plaited dewlaps, and folds 
of moderate size about the neck; the rams had both 
in a greater degree. The external color of the fleece 
* Their full pedigree, sustained by the most ample testimony—tes- 
tumony never since disputed—was published in the American Agri- 
culturist and Culhvator, in 1844. 
