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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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ot, and only found in one rocky and mountainous district at thehead of the Duddon and Esk rivers, in Cumberland, (Eng.) appear tobe only a variety of the same race. Another variety, termed the Dun-faced breed, is found in the exposednorthern districts of England. The faces of the sheep are of a dun, ortawny color; the animals are smaller in size ; have short tails; and arenot so hardy as the preceding sort. The wool is variously streaked with ENCYCLOPEDIA. 97 MERINO, OR SPANISH SHEEP. black, red, brown or dun, and partly of a fine texture, weighing about apound and a half per fleece, when killed at four years and a half. Fleshfinely grained, and of excellent flavor. The Shetland breed, a nearly similar race, derives its name from theislands on the north coast of Scotland, where these sheep are reared.The wool is very fine and soft, fit for the finest manufactures ; the fleeceweighs upon an average from one to three pounds. The Shetland sheepare very hardy, but too wild to be confined.
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MERINO, OR SPANISH SHEEP. XV. The Merino, or Spanish sheep, a wether of which breed is herodelineated—have horns of a middle size, of which the ewes are some-times destitute; faces white; legs of the same hue and rather long ; shapenot very perfect, having a piece of loose skin depending from the neck ;bone fine ; pelt fine and clear. The wool of the Merino sheep is uncommonly fine, and weighs, uponan average, about three pounds and a halfper fleece. The best Merinofleeces have a dark brown tinge on their surface, almost amounting toblack, which is formed by dust adhering to the greasy, yolky propertiesof its pile; and there is a surprising contrast between it and the richwhite color within, as well as the rosy hue of the skin, which peculiarlydenotes high proof. The Merinos are natives of the northern provincesof Spain, and were first introduced into Great Britain in the year 17*7 ;but it was not until 1792 that any effectual measures were adopted to-wards improving the English bre

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