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that that quality of fattening eafily, is as necefiTarlly 

 connefted with co.arfenefs of wool, or lightnefs, 

 of fleece, or any other ufelefs or hurtful peculia- 

 rity, if it fliould fo happen that the favourite breed 

 chanced to have coarfe wool, or a thin fleece, &c. 

 •The confequence of this conclufion would be, 

 that every man who wiflied to improve the car- 

 cafe of his flieep, would turn away from every 

 breed of flieep that carried fine wool or a clofe 

 fleece, as he now does from thofe breeds that 

 have long legs, or what is deemed in, other -re- 

 fpecls, improper fliapesj. and fine-wooled flieep, 

 carrying clofe fleeces, would come to be entirely 

 neglected. But if, inftead of this prevention, he 

 fliould be convinced that it might be very poflible 

 to find a fncep that would have a tendency to fat- 

 ten kindly among thofe breeds that carry very 

 fine wool and clofe fleeces ; he would be as anxi- 

 ous to felcct from thcfe breeds, as from others, 

 and probably as fuccefsful too, if he had fet out 

 gt the fame time with the man who began to 

 felcct from the coarfe breed. I am, myfelf, per- 

 fectly fatisfied, from a variety of fa6ts thst have 

 fallen under my own obfervation, which would 

 fill a volume nearly to enumerate, that fine wool, 

 for example, is neither neceflarily connected with 

 thinnefs of pile, (the Spanilli iheep carry the clofell 

 pile of fleece yet known in this countiy) with 

 fkiortncfs of tlaplo, (I once had a fleece of wool 



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