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our boafted improvements is flill done, a collec- , 

 tion of commonage, for affording a fcanty pittance 

 of fhort feed, on a wide ramble, in order to gather 

 in return a few fleeces, comparatively, of even the 

 fineft wool, would be fupporting the boaft of manu- 

 facture at the expence of food and population. At 

 fuch expence is the pride of Spain in her flocks 

 now fupported, — a policy far from enviable ! That 

 the finefl: broad- cloth has gradually decreafed in 

 goodnefs, and the narrow- cloth equally improved, 

 is very palpable; and has probably arifen from an 

 increafe by cultivation of that fort of pafliurage, 

 which maintains a far greater number of the beft 

 Iheep, with fome diminution in their fleece of finer 

 wool ; — too great a mixture of Spanifli with Eng- 

 lilh wool in the fabrick, in order to remedy this 

 decline of our own, only procuring the ufual fine- 

 nefs at the expence of the old texture. 



Since the improved culture of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk, by converting extenfive flieep-walks into 

 fine inclofures of wheat, barley, clover, and turnips, 

 with rye and tares; the wool of their provincial 

 fpecies has decreafed in finenefs ; but been amply 

 compenfated by the larger quantity raifed on more 

 numerous flocks, fupporting and fupported by the 

 moil improved agriculture ; and at the fame time 



fupplying 



