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From thefe confiderations we clearly perceiy^^ 

 that when France attempts to obtain a particular 

 breed of flieep from Britain, or elfewhere, for the 

 purpofe of improving her wool, fhe has to ftrnggle 

 with obftrudions that naiure has thrown in her 

 way, that are infinitely more difficult to be removed 

 than the feeble bars that human laws have fome- 

 times attempted to rear^ bars which by an enter- 

 prifing fpirit might, in all cafes, be eafily fur- 

 mounted. But to Britain^ indulgent nature has 

 been in this refpedt peculiarly kind, by having of 

 herfelf, and without any effort on our part, effec- 

 tually removed this otherwife unfurmountable diffi- 

 culty, and thus has put it in our power to propa- 

 gate any particular breed of quadrupeds we may 

 incline, by enabling us to keep it, as long as we 

 fhall think neceffary, perfectly ifolated from every 

 6ther breed, without fubje6ling us to the fmallefl: 

 c^^pence to effeduate that feclufion. 



The intelligent reader will readily perceive that 

 I here allude to thofe numerous iflands, iflets, and 

 holms, that are thick fcatt^ied along the weflern 

 and northern coafts of this ifland. The climate 

 of thefe fmall iflands is temperate and equable be- 

 yond that of perhaps any other part of Europe; 

 and the grafs in many of them is peculiarly adapted 

 to the rearing of flieep. There, the flocks would 



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