A Sportsman And Naturalist's Tour in Sutherlandshire
A Sportsman And Naturalist's Tour in Sutherlandshire
Charles St. John
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Sheep after seven or eight years lose their teeth, more or less, and show symptoms of their best days being past But these, like all other domesticated animals, do not afford a good criterion to judge by, as they are all imder an artificial system as to food and manner of living, which makes them, like man, subject to many diseases and causes of decay, which would not affect them if they were in a state of nature. In populous countries such as Britain, it may fairly be supposed that extremely f...ew wild animals or birds reach their full period of life. Although some kinds are carefully preserved here and there, they are only preserved, like sheep or fowls, to be the more conveniently killed when required ; and where there is no restriction to shooting and destroying^ the ferae naturae of the country, the extensive trade carried on throughout the kingdom in all the shops where guns and powder and shot are sold, proves what numbers must ba Digitized by LjOOQIC 234 TOUR IN SUTHERLANDSHIRE.
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