412 AGRICULTURE.

In BREED, they agree with the vale lands, that skirt them: as, in Kent, the Welch; so in Surrey, the Staffordshire, are most prevalent:“ Staffordshire heifers” finding their way to this the farthest limits of the Jonghorned breed: the Cuatx Hitts of SURREY, as the Heaths of Hampshire and Sussex, being a BOUNDARY, between the LONG and the MIDDLEHORNED BREEDS.

The Suffolk and the Alderney breeds are also found, on these hills.

SHEEP. It has been already conveyed, in speaking of this species of livestock, in _ the other two Divisions of the Chalk Hills, that the pEscriprions of FLocxs, in this Division, are those of rearing, and fatiing WEDDERS.‘

The BREED, formerly(as has likewise been intimated) was wholly that of the Wiit- shire and Hampshire hills. But, during the last ten years, the Sussex or South Down breed have been gaining a footing, which they aré likely to hold: as being a more natural, and, of course, a more bardy, va-~ riety; that is to say, have been less forced, from their native, or long inherited quali- ties, and habits, than what may be properly styled the watermeadow variety: both of them being, probably, from the same root. See West oF ENGLAND.

The AGE oF PURCHASE is that of lambs; whose ages vary, somewhat, with the breed;

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