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laudably aimed at fharing in the pride and benefit 

 of fuch improvement. If any little artifice of trade 

 hath been exerted in this extraordinary Ipeculation, 

 the publick has probably fhared fully in its refult, 

 by the ardour raifed and excited to follow up fuch 

 an example, by equal attempts ; which, if in other 

 counties, more fuitable for foil and fituation for 

 that purpofe, caii produce a ifiner ftaple of wool 

 on a carcafe tolerably equivalent, will probably bp 

 ftill more beneficial, in not only fupplying the 

 market with fine meat, but the manufadlory with 

 is fine wool. 



That the extremeil finenefs in wool may^ ia 

 forne climates be united with the longed ftaple, I 

 nave proof in a very fmall quantity that I took 

 from one of a few rough fleeces, brought as a little 

 adventure by the Captain of an Eaft-India fhip 

 frdm the Manillas; it is white as fnow, and foft as 

 filk; was bought by the very ingenious manufac- 

 turer at eight Ihillings the pound, and fo readily 

 acknowledged by him to have a far fuperior value 

 in the purpofes to which, from its delicacy, it could 

 extenfively be applied; (the advanced price of the 

 raw material being comparatively as nothing to 

 Ac value of the improved manufacture ingenuity 

 can make of it;) that an order was given to colle(5t 

 La in 



