$6 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



improved breed, which they let out again to breeders of 

 an inferior clafs. The prices given by graziers, for the 

 fole purpofe of getting grazing flock, felciom exceed ten 

 guineas, which is confidered as an extraordinary price, 

 five or fix guineas being moft frequently given. 



This valuable breed has likewife found its way into 

 Northumberland. MefT. Culley of Fenton, Mr Thomp- 

 fon of Lilburn, and MelT. Donkin and Co. of Hexham 

 Brewery, with great fpirit, and at confiderable expence, 

 have greatly improved their refpeclave breeds of Sheep, 

 by an admiffion of the Difhley blood. 



A WEBBER of Mr Culley's Breed. 



We are favoured, by Mr Culley, with the following 

 account of a Wedder of his breed, fed at Fenton in 

 Northumberland, and killed at Alnwick in October, 



1787, when four years old: His dimenfions were as 



follow, — girt, four feet eight inches and an half ; breadth, 

 over his fhoulders, one foot three inches over his mid- 



