. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . E 66 HISTORY OF A WEDDER OF MR GULLEYs BREED. We are favoured, by Mr Culley, with the followingaccount of a Wedder of his breed, fed at Fenton inNorthumberland, and killed at Alnwick in 0£l:ober, 1787,when four years old :—His dimenfions were as follow:—Girt, four feet eight inches and an half; breadth over hisfhoulders, one foot three inches ; over his middle, onefoot feven inches and a quarter ; acrofs the bread, fromthe infide of one fore leg to the infide of the other, nineinches. At the dividing of the quarter
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . E 66 HISTORY OF A WEDDER OF MR GULLEYs BREED. We are favoured, by Mr Culley, with the followingaccount of a Wedder of his breed, fed at Fenton inNorthumberland, and killed at Alnwick in 0£l:ober, 1787,when four years old :—His dimenfions were as follow:—Girt, four feet eight inches and an half; breadth over hisfhoulders, one foot three inches ; over his middle, onefoot feven inches and a quarter ; acrofs the bread, fromthe infide of one fore leg to the infide of the other, nineinches. At the dividing of the quarters, through theribs, it meafured feven inches and one-eighth of folid fat,cut ftraight through without any flope j and his muttonwas of the moft beautiful bright colour. But in nothingwas he fo remarkable as in the fmallnefs of his bones.—The proprietor of this Sheep laments that he had not theoffals exaftly weighed (by offals, we would be underftoodto mean not only the tallow, but the head, pluck, andpelt, with the blood and entrails); becaufe it is now well HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 67
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