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fine bone, being equally clear from superfluous skin 
and coarse hairy wool, from tbe knee and hough 
downwards ; the breast broad and well formed, which 
will keep liis fore legs at a proper wideness ; his girth 
m chest full and deep, and instead of a hollow be- 
hind the shoulders, that part, by some called the 
fore-flank, should be quite full ; the back and loins 
hroad, flat, and straight, from which the ribs must 
rise with a fine circular arc!) ; his belly straight, the 
tail well set up, quarters long and full, with the 
mutton quite down to the hough, which should nei- 
ther stand in nor out; his twist deep and full, which, 
with the broad breast, will keep his fore legs open 
and square ; the whole body covered with a fine thin 
tosy pelt, and that with a fine long bright and soft 
Wool.” * 
1 he Leicester or Dishley breed is now the most 
Common, and most extensively reared, over all the 
*ich and low-lying pasture-land of England. It is 
distinguished from the other long-woolled breeds by 
‘ having fine lively eyes, clean heads without Iioms, 
straight broad flat back, round or barrel-shaped 
bodies, fine small bones, thin pelts, and a disposition 
*0 make fat at an early age, with a superiority in the 
fineness of tbe grain and flavour of the mutton.” -j- 
This is properly what was formerly the Lincolnshire 
breed, remarkable for tlie quantity of wool, but af- 
fording a very coarse and unprofitable mutton. Mr 
* Cullej-, p. 73. 
Dickson’s Practical Agriculture, ii. p. 1135. 
