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In the case of sheep, it would seem that the character of the race and the habits of. the individual, merit even more con- sideration than’ in-that of cattle. It has been thought that some breeds, ac- customed to low, luxuriant pastures, have not answered so well with the short, dry herbage in some fine sheep walks, and that, in particular, some such have been found: liable to a disorder of the liver, a kind of inflamed condition, ending in a scirrhus state of that organ, hepatitis chromica. In other instances, and these by far the most numerous, this sort of stock suffers from an opposite kind of treatment—their being turned from dry to moist pastures, or, while on the former, exposed to eat a por- tion of herbage either not sufficiently nu- tritious, or not adapted to their digestive powers, by reason of its being, in particu- lar seasons, too watery and poor.- ous ailments may result from inattention in this respect; weak animals being a prey

ficient to secure the attention of all sensible husbandmen to this subject. It contains an account of atrial made by

himself last summer, 1805.