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Guinea a year, (this payment to be continued only 

 during pleafure) the money, Under the dire6lion of 

 a committee to be chofen annually by the members, 

 to be applied — for promoting the improvement of 

 Britilh wool, by offering premiums, or by any other 

 mode that fhall be judged more advifeable for fe- 

 ledling the bed and fineft wooled (heep that could 

 be found in this iflandj — for procuring the befl 

 breeds from foreign parts that could be difcovered, 

 and for rearing each of thele di(lin<5l breeds apart> 

 a-nd increafing the number of each, till their refpcc^ 

 tive qualities could be diftin6lly afcertained, and 

 their value accurately appreciated. To give fome 

 idea of what might be done by this fociety, 1 fhall 

 beg leave to fuggefl a few more hints that have 

 occurred to me in refle(5ling on this fubjedl:. 



There exids in this ifland at prefent the remains 

 of at leail three diilindl breeds of fheep, that are pe- 

 culiarly valuable on account of the quality of the 

 wool produced when uncontaminated by foreign 

 mixtures, but which, in the prefenc ftate of this 

 country, run a great rifk of being entirely loft in a 

 few years, if no efFe(5lual method f]:all be now taken 

 to recover and preferve them. The firft care of 

 fuch a fociety fliould naturally be directed towards 

 the recovery and prefervation of thefc valuable- 

 breeds of our native (heep, 



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