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to be fuppofed, would fell at very high prices com- 

 pared to what it brings there at prefent ; fo that if 

 this department were managed with an ordinary de- 

 gree of (kill and honefty, the expence incurred there 

 would probably be altogether,, or very nearly, re- 

 paid by the produce of the flocks. Under the ma- 

 nagement of an individual, for his own account, the 

 return would no doubt be much more^ and, after 

 the iheep Vv^ere once obtained, the breeding of them 

 might prove, to fuch individuals, a bufinefs highly 

 lucrative; but under the diredion of a publick fo- 

 ciety, this ought not to be looked for. Indivi- 

 duals, however, who pofTefs the iflands fcattered 

 around thefe, would have an early opportunity of 

 procuring the beft breeds, and would no doubt 

 quickly avail themfelves of the benefits that might 

 be derived from that fource. It would be no fmall 

 advantage to them to be able to fend their wool to 

 market along with that belonging to the fociety. 



If ever this fociety Ihould be inftituted, it would 

 feem, for many very obvious reafons, that London 

 ought to be the place where it fliould be conftituted, 

 and where a fecretary ought pejpetually to refide, 

 who, under the direftion of the committee, fliould 

 tranfadl the bufinefs of the fociety ; fend the necef* 

 fary commifTions to foreign parts, and ifTue orders to 

 the domeftick overfeer for regulating his condu6l. 



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