This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...for accomplishing an object which may prove of national importance." In the specimen which we have figured, the external coat consists entirely of the hair, which Mr Laurie alludes to as unfit for purposes of manufacture, forming a dense and deer-like covering, but at the root of this there is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...for accomplishing an object which may prove of national importance." In the specimen which we have figured, the external coat consists entirely of the hair, which Mr Laurie alludes to as unfit for purposes of manufacture, forming a dense and deer-like covering, but at the root of this there is abundance of very close, fine, but short wool, which would be-unattainable for any purpose, unless the hairs could be got rid of by the influence of a milder climate, and improvement or change of the breed. The specimen in the Edinburgh Museum stands three feet two inches high at the shoulder, and is in length about three feet five inches. The general colour is a pale opaque wood-brown, having a peculiar dull tint. The lower parts ace paler, nearly white, and the buttocks are marked with the pale dusk of the deer. The horns are large, about thirtyone inches long, and fifteen and a half inches in circumference at the base. Dr Richardson remarks that the old rams are nearly entirely white in the spring, occasioned by the rubbing or wearing of the hair, which is coloured only at the tips. We are Wern. Trass, vol ill. p. 310. not aware of this species having been domesticated in America, or imported alive to Europe, and we believe that no domestic breeds are at this time traced to it. We now come to review some of the more remarkable of the domestic races, but if all the varieties were to be described, much more than the proper proportion of our space would be occupied, and on that account one or two only of these from each continent will be noticed. It may be premised, that writers have generally placed all the varieties under the denomination of Ovis aries, though it is generally acknowledged that it is from some one of those we have been now...
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