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by leffening the bulk of materials intended for future 
compoits, ia the ftraw, haulm, and refufe of the dif- 
paraged crops here enumerated; all thefe, and 
other facrifices, will he make, rather than nip his fine 
flock in the bud, by ftinting his lambs, and thus 
checking them in their approach to perfe@ion. And 
although thefe defcriptions may with fome be thought 
exaggerated, or at leaft {tretched to their utmoft ex- 
tent, yet, for the verity of them all, the writer dares 
appeal to the ancient veteran upland farmer, (with 
fome fuch he has Jong been in habits of intimacy) 
grown wife from experience, and impartial from 
conviction; for after all that can have been done to 
prevent it, if the feverity of the feafon fhould be of 
an extraordinary continuance, (as in the in{ftance of 
the prefent year) the much-dreaded embarraffment, 
the well-parried evil, will finally get footing, and 
fubvert the whole of his {chemes and his intentions. 
His fine ewes, after having given their lambs through 
their nipples almoft the whole of their carcaffes, will 
Jofe the whole, or greateft part, of their milk; the 
jambs themfelves will become weaned, {tunted, and 
deranged in their fize, beauty, and growth; his young 
fheep will be tucked up, their bellies almoft to their 
backs; and on the contingent return of warm and 
moift weather, much lofs will aecrue from blood, flux, 
&c. and numerous deaths and difafters will enfue; 
and although they will, many of them, efcape imme- 
diate mortality, even their after-fhorn fleeces, much 
leflened 
