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would be a great gratification to me, to hear of an experiment made upon the Sussex Downs, with the Shetland, and dun-faced sheep of the North, bearing the fine cottony wool, which rivals that of Spain: theif fine delicate mutton’ would find its utmost value in the neighbourhood of the me- tropolis.

The ror in sheep, is known by the dullness of the eyes, the livid whiteness of the gums, foulness of the teeth, ill scent of the breath, and the easiness with which the wool may be pulled of. I have seen sheep in the last stage, when their horns would come off with the slightest pull. Signs of health:—jme azure eye, florid, ruddy eye-strings and gums, sweet breath, skin red on the brisket, wool fast, feet cool.“The rot is, orrather is occasioned by, a dropsy, Sut SENETIS, common to sheep and rabbits, and I believe to deer. I have had young rabbits affected with it, when the lymph or water has distilled from their mouths and noses: andondissection, I have found it filling up: the entrails,and even extravased.in the chest and belly; the liver, also, full of flukes, as'in sheep. Sheep, it is well known, acquire this fatal disease from super-abundant moisture of food, or- wet lodging, from perspiration obstructed by cold, from distress and low keep; and various other causes: Sheep are a species which require dry countries, dry. lodging,.and food, if succulent, rather of a warm and

spirituous, than a cold and watery nature. They are not the stock for clayey or unsound soils. An incipient rot may: be stopped, and the sheep re- stored, by being taken up to dry lodging, and drying absorbent keep; but the disease confirm-

ed,