"This breed is known by having the face, nose, and legs white, head
rather long, but broad, and the forehead woolly, as in the Spanish sort;
the horn round and bold, middle-sized, and standing from the head; the
shoulders broad at top, but lower than the hind quarters; the back
tolerably straight; carcass deep, and loins broad; legs not long, nor
very fine in the bone; the wool is fine and short. It is a breed which
has the peculiar property of producing lambs at any period of the
season, even so early as September and October, so as to suit the
purposes of the lamb-suckler.