the common name of the flesh of a sheep after the animal has been killed. Mutton has been commonly preferred to all the fleashes of quadrupeds. And indeed, besides its being more perfect, it has the advantage over them of being more generally suited to different climates: whereas beef, e.g. requires a very nice intermediate state, which it seems to enjoy chiefly in England; for although Scotland supplies what are reckoned the best cattle, it is in the rich English pastures that they are brought to perfection. Now the sheep can be brought almost to the same perfection in this bleak northern region as in the southern countries.