to get any number of ilicep from tlience that inaf 

 h" wanted, by a procedure it is not ncceflary for 

 mc here to explain. The only real difficulty will 

 be to find a perfon who is capable of choofing 

 the bed fort, to pick them out there, who would 

 not be liable to fufpicioh : but this diffictiky may 

 be overcome. 



It would perhaps be advifeable to obtain frofti 

 thence a^ thejirft, not lefs than fifty or fixty ewes, 

 and ten or twelve rams. By obtaining fuch a 

 number at once, the breed would not only be the 

 more quickly increaied in Britain, but a chance 

 would alfo be given to corre6l any error that might 

 be made in choofing them; as it is not probable, 

 that among fuch a number there would not be 

 fome individuals of the fined fort, that might be fe- 

 parated from the reft to keep up the piirefi breed. 

 The fupernumerary rams too, might be put to the 

 pick of our own ewes, to improve their wool by 

 the crofs breed. As the firft coft of thcfe flieep in 

 Spain would not be great, and as the expence of 

 tranfporting them hither would not be confiderable, 

 it v/ould perhaps be right to obtain a ftill greater 

 number, if the fociety*s funds were adequate to it; 

 as the nation would thus the i^mQV derive a benefit 

 from this improvementr 



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