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the Difhley or new Leicefter breed, and confequently 
approaching very nearly to the fame fpecies, only in 
a larger frame; they confumed more food, grew 
more, and feemed to be a hardy, ufeful fheep. 
The Wiltfhire were a tall, bony, thin-carcafled 
fheep, fit to walk two or three miles to a fold, and 
to be kept till three or four years old for the pur- 
pofe of manuring a down farm; they ate raven- 
oufly, increafed greatly in fize and weight, but did 
not fatten. 
The Dorfet, the South-Down, and the Mendip, 
approach nearly to an equality in point of profit, 
and may be confidered as valuable forts both to the 
breeder and the grazier; but were I to take my 
choice of a flock, calculated to endure feverity of 
climate and fcantinefs of pafture, I fhould prefer 
either the South-Down, or the beft fort of the na- 
tive Mendip. And in this idea Iam juftified by 
obfervations made in the courfe of this experiment. 
In the winter feafon, when the Leicefter, the Cotf- 
wold, the Wilts, and the Dorfet forts, were un- 
ceafingly devouring hay and turnips, the South- 
Down and the Mendip were traverfing the field in 
fearch of the fcanty pittance of grafs then to be 
found, and I verily think that their wintering was 
not worth as much as the others by three or four 
fhillings per head. 
Thefe forts (particularly the Mendip) are fuf- 
ceptible of great improvement, both in the carcafe 
and 
