LETTERS 



TO THE 



BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND 

 AGRICULTURE SOCIETY. 



Article I. 



Difquifitions cojicerning the different varieties of Wool" 

 BEARING Animals, and other particulars conne^ed 

 with that fubjed. 



[By James Anderson, L.L. D. F. R. S.] 



TT has been hitherto in general believed, thai the 

 -■- Sheep is univerfally a wool-bearing animal, and 

 that there is no other creature upon the globe that 

 carries ivool, in the ftri(5l and proper fenfe of the 

 word, but fheep alone. But there is now reafon to 

 doubt if either of thefe propoficions be flriftly true. 



Among other good effefts that will refult from the 

 refearches of the fociety inftituted for the improve- 

 ment of Britifh wool, we have already become ac- 

 quainted with the nature and diftinguifliing peculia- 

 rities of a great diverfity of varieties of fheep, and 

 other animals that were not before known in Europe. 

 It is to that fource we owe an account of the dif- 

 ferent varieties or breeds of fheep, that have been 



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