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race, very nearly allied^to this clafs, with a fmall blend 

 of wool in it, and is of a harder feel than fome of the 

 pure hairy breeds, fome of which are tolerably fine 

 and foft, and very tough and durable in work, and 

 have a fine gofly filky-like appearance. I have had 

 wool, of the genuine wool-bearing breed of fheep, 

 that meafured lyi inches in length, which was ex- 

 tremely fine and foft, and nothing refembling that 

 hi;Iky kind of hair-wool in Lincolnfliire, 



CLASS THIRD. 



Sheep that carry short thick hair, wbicb in riQ 

 refpcSl refembles wool of any fort. 



Of this variety of the flieep fpecies we have no 

 breeds in Britain; but that fuch flieep do exifi, we 

 have the clearefl: proofs. So little are they known 

 indeed in this country, and fo little is it fufpefted 

 here that fuch an animal exifts, that I was not a little 

 furprifed when I firfl: fxw one of this kind, and there- 

 fore examined it with a good deal of attention. This 

 creature was on board a Danifli Eaft-India ftiip that 

 put into Leith roads lad feafon, and was bought, with 

 feveral others of the fame fort, as they afliired mc, 

 in the ifland of Madagafcar. It was a ram of a good 

 fize, and was covered all over with a thick coat of 

 fhort thick ftilF hairs, like that of a horfe, but rather 

 ftronger in the pile and fliorter. The colour was a 

 fine brown, the hair lay clofe to the Ikin, and was very 

 fmooth and glofly, like the coat of a well-drefTed 



horfe 



