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Cheviots. 
Cheviot sheep have been found on the Cheviot Hills from 
time immemorial, and are well suited to that situation. The 
native sheep of the hills was greatly impi'oved rather more than 
a century ago, when Mr. Robson did for the Cheviots very 
much what Bakewell did for the Leicesters. It is still a moot 
point as to the particular elements which he employed, one 
account saying that it Avas the Lincolns, and another the 
Leicesters. The probability is that he used Dishley Leicesters 
when they were in a state of transition, and before they attained 
their ultimate perfection. In any case his work of improvement 
was done with much judgment and discretion, and the Cheviots 
have greatly extended their range in consequence. In general 
shape the Cheviot rather resembles the Border Leicester, but, 
according to Mr. John Usher, " compared with the Leicester, 
he is as a cavalier to an alderman." 
It was noteworthy that here and there among the twenty- 
seven entries of Cheviots at Windsor one saw a horned sheep, 
the majority lacking that distinction. Mr. Dixon, in his essay 
on the " Mountain Breeds," ' says that " the horned tups are 
thought more hardy, though they are often coarser in the coat." 
The prize-winners were Messrs. John Eobson, Jacob Robson, 
R. W. Laidley, Walter Mundell, David Hall, and Edward Dodd. 
Report of th6 Judges of Cheviot Sheep. 
[Classes 221 to 223.] 
The Judges of Cheviot sheep have to remark the great pleasure they had 
iu judging a Class of sheep of A'ery superior merits. 
Geo. Rea. 
Thomas Elliot, 
Black-faced Mountain. 
This breed shares with the Cheviots the sheep supremacy of 
Scotland. Professor Low supposes that this breed found its way 
from the mountains of the north of England into Scotland, and 
there is a tradition that they were introduced to Ettrick Forest 
by one of the early Scotch kings, though the "foreign land" 
fi'om whence he obtained them is indeterminate. As a matter 
of fact, however, the most natural hypothesis seems to be that 
the Black-faces were developed from the aboriginal breed of the 
Scotch hills, which gradually improved and increased in size. 
It was in the ' course of the eighteenth century that the improve- 
ment in the sheep stock took place, and the Black-faces generally 
' Journal, Vol. II. 2nd Series (1866), p. 361. 
