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with regard both to the wool and car cafe? This 

 fubjeft will continue to employ the atten- 

 tion of the Society 'till fome determinate fa£ls 

 are afcertained, that may lead to publick con- 

 viflion. How far the general improvement of 

 the quality of Britifh wool is praflicable, fo as 

 to fuperfede the neceflity of a large foreign 

 fupply, is a queftion agitating elfe where ; and 

 this Society cannot be inattentive to its folu- 

 tion. It might pofTibly be found that a ge- 

 neral national alteration of the ftock of 

 flieep, in favour of fine wool, would be in- 

 compatible with the national intereft, both 

 with refpeft to the quantity of wool and of 

 mutton. Whether the quantity, and confe- 

 quently the cheapncfs of mutton, would not 

 be in danger of being facrificed to finenefs 

 of wool ', or whether the coarfenefs of moft 

 of our wool, compared with Spanifh, be, un- 

 der all circumftances, an evil ; are queftions of 

 no fmall moment. Some gentlemen, of much 

 candour and refleftion,, will not be difap- 

 pointed if this Society fhould ultimately fix 

 in a confirmed opinion, that there is no race 

 of (heep in Britain but what has its advan- 

 tages. 



