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enabling them to determine with facility and accu- 

 racy which was the fined wool. 



Another fct of premiums exactly fimilar to thefc 

 might be offered in the Ifle of Skye, which is the 

 moft centrical place for the Weftern iflands. Whe- 

 ther it would be proper to have another fet for the 

 Orkneys I cannot tell, being as yet but imperfedly 

 informed as to the nature of the breed of fheep in 

 thofe parts. 



The other two valuable breeds of flieep, natives 

 of this ifland, are thofe that carry the long wool 

 fit for combing, of the fined quality, and that kind 

 which carries the beft fhort clothing wool. Both 

 thefe breeds are natives of England and Wales : 

 but in what places the fined of cither breed are to 

 be found, and what would be the readied way of 

 obtaining the bed of either fort, other gentlemen of 

 the Society would be much better judges than I can 

 pretend to be. 



Spanidi wool is now in fuch high edimation for 

 manufactures, that ip would doubtlefs be one of the 

 fird enterprizcs of this Society to obtain a parcel of 

 this breed of Iheep : and though the penalty for 

 tranfporting diecp out of Spain be nothing lefs 

 than death by law, yet it will be no difficult matter 



to 



