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have always fancied that there has been a little deterioration 
when he has been far removed, or attempted to be bred elsewhere. 
Still this is a beautiful portrait, and embodies much of the im- 
provement that has been effected in the breed. The shortening 
of the neck, and the enlargement of the chest, and of the carcass 
generally, and the diminution of the length of the limbs, are well 
depicted. It is a beautiful breed ; but there are others that arrive 
at greater weight, and attain an earlier maturity. 
The next plate contains the portraits of two of the Sussex breed, 
the natives of the weald of Sussex. There is a considerable re- 
semblance to the Devon breed, but the Sussex oxen are taller and 
larger, and carry a heavier carcass. They occupy an intermediate 
station between the Devon and the Hereford cattle. The Sussex 
breeders are beginning to be more aware of the sterling value of 
their cattle, and anxious to improve them. 
The following plate contains a pleasing specimen of the 
Glamorgan breed. It differs in different parts of the county. 
In the upper districts the cattle are somewhat small and coarse, 
and slow in arriving at maturity. In the vales there is a superior 
breed, and the cows are excellent milkers. The introduction of 
the short horns, however, into the Vale of Glamorgan has con- 
siderably lessened the value of the native breed. 
The ninth part of this work is devoted to Sheep; and the 
first plate contains a sketch of the Ryeland sheep, so called from 
its being principally cultivated in a part of Hereford on the 
south of the Wye, and formerly devoted to the production of 
rye. They were a small hornless breed, with the whole of the 
wool white, and possessing the felting property to an extent that 
was not exceeded by any breed in the country. The foreign 
finer wools being introduced, and this sheep being of small size, 
and inferior in general value to many breeds that the country is 
capable of maintaining, the Ryelands have lessened in number, and 
are not cultivated to the extent that they used to be. The plate 
of them, however, contained in this number, gives us a pleasing 
view of what they once were. 
The next plates contain portraits of a ram, and a ewe and lamb, 
from the breeds of Messrs. John Ellman, of Glynde, in Sussex, 
and Thomas Ellman, of Bedingham, in the same county. They 
are, indeed, beautifully executed. A pleasing history of this valua- 
ble breed is given, from the first attempts at improvement by John 
Ellman, of Glynde, to the present state of early maturity and 
fattening power which they have reached. The change which 
has taken place in the wool of the Sussex sheep is not, perhaps, 
sufficiently adverted to; it is, however, a curious and a very im- 
portant fact. A detailed account of it will be found in the trea- 
tise on “ Sheep,” by the writer of this review. 
