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tinued for many years, there is found intermixed 

 with the wool, in different proportions, a kind of 

 fliort, opaque, brittle, unelaftick hair, ufually of a 

 dead white or chalky colour, which is well known 

 to manufacturers, and is eafily diftinguifliable from 

 other hair. It is known by the name oi Jiitchel 

 hair in fome places. In other places, it is called 

 kimps', and probably it has many other local names 

 with which I am unacquainted. This kind of hair 

 does not loofen from the fkin at the fame time with 

 the wool, and may thus be, in fome meafure, fepa- 

 rated from it among fome of the purer wool-bear- 

 ing breeds. I have reafon to believe, though I am 

 not abfolutely certain of the faCl, that this kind of 

 hair is peculiar to the flieep of this clafs, and is not 

 to be found in either of the other two, unlefs where 

 they participate with this one in a mongrel breed. 



CLASS SECOND. 

 H/f7/?-BEARING ShEEP, 



Whofe pile is long in the ftaple, and of a quality that ad- 

 mits of being employed in many manufaftures, nearly 

 for the fame purpofes as wool. 



Sheep referable to this clafs have been ufually 

 confounded with the former, infomuch that they 

 have almoft entirely efcaped the notice of natu- 

 ralifts and others. The pure breeds of this fort 

 are fcarcely any where to be found among manufac- 

 turing nations J but they are reared, in preference to 



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