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tages, for particular fituations and expofures. 

 We have no wool, however coarfe, but what is 

 nfeful. Our different manufaftures for home 

 and foreign trade, require the different forts 

 already known, confume them all, and even 

 call for more. If it fhould be found that the 

 prefent fyftem of artificial feeding, neceffary to 

 increafe the quantity of mutton, (and which 

 confequently increafes wool) is incompatible 

 with a general improvement in xh^Jinetiefs of 

 wool, ftill that increafed quantity of human 

 food, a proportionable increafe of wool and 

 manure, and the adaptation of fheep to the 

 circumftances of the diftrift, are objefts of 

 higher national importance, than a uniform 

 finenefs of wool. Thefe points may now be 

 confidered as in a fairer train for inveftiga- 

 tion than heretofore: and the refult may be 

 expe6led at a future day. So long as Britifh 

 genius and advantages for manufafture, on 

 a comparifon with thofe of other European 

 nations, continue what they are, fo long muft 

 wool of fome fort be imported. And the 

 queftion then will moft probably be, which 

 may be imported to greateft advantage, that 



which 



