. Domestic animals; : history and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, and farm dogs,. their wool was thick and crimped, theirskins loose and doubling, their faces and legs not materiallydifferent from the two latter flocks, but in general they weremore gummed than either of the other flocks. In point otfineness, there was very httle difference between these sixflocks; and as I have been told by well-informed persons, thereis very little difference in this respect among the Leonese Tran-shumantes in general. The Escurials, the Montarcos, and theGuadaloupes, were not,
. Domestic animals; : history and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, and farm dogs,. their wool was thick and crimped, theirskins loose and doubling, their faces and legs not materiallydifferent from the two latter flocks, but in general they weremore gummed than either of the other flocks. In point otfineness, there was very httle difference between these sixflocks; and as I have been told by well-informed persons, thereis very little difference in this respect among the Leonese Tran-shumantes in general. The Escurials, the Montarcos, and theGuadaloupes, were not, in general, so heavy-horned as theother three flocks, and about one in six of the bucks werewithout horns. Tlie Saxon,We have before seen, is one of the varieties of the pure-bred iAXOX. 97 Merino, tlie foundation of wliicli was laid by an importa^ on ofsome of the choicest animals into Saxony, in 17G5. The greatcare and attention bestowed upon these sheep by the Elector,the nobility, and the most intelligent farmers, soon carried themto a point of uniformity and excellence of fleece, never exceed- Fig. 21.
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