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and neck, in order to make him lighter in. the 
firft place, and befides to give his enemy the lefs 
-epportunity of taking hold, by this he is fo altered 
that he would fearcely be known. 
Great care is taken of the breed; indeed the 
fame attention is paid to it as to the breed of race 
horfes, and it has been perhaps as much improved. 
England was famous for its poultry before 
the time of Julius Caefar, which is: more than 
. 1800 years ago. 
They are {aid to come originally from Perfia. 
Now they are found wild in the ifland of Tinian,’ 
: and j in other iflands of the Indian ocean. In their 
_ wild fiate their plumage is black and yellow, and 
their wattles purple and yellow. ‘The flefhy fub- 
~ ftance near the lower mandible is called the wattles. 
It is imagined they were firft brought to Eng- 
Jand by the Pheenicians. The Phoenicians hved 
in Turkey in Afja, near Mount Lebanon, on the : 
eoatt of the Mediterranean fea, fats were famous. 
for their extenfive cammerce. 
sometimes teeth have been tranfplanted into 
the comb of a Cock, and have continued to grow 
there as in a kind of nurfery bed, ready to be re-~ | 
_ moved again. into the gums of perfons who have 
been obliged to have their own drawn, 
And fometimes a {pur from the leg of one Cock, : 
Das been engraited into the comb of another, 
B 4 _ where: 
