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former opinion. No opinion is more univerfal in 

 the Weft-Indies, than that the fheep which are 

 deemed the native breed of the illand of Jamaica, 

 carry no wool at all, but hair only. I had an op- 

 portunity, I think, of fending to you a fpecimen of 

 the natural fleece of one of thofe fheep which con- 

 fifts for the greateft part of wool, perhaps finer 

 (undoubtedly fofter) than the beft Spanifli wool. 



Pleafe to accept of thefe hafty notices in good 

 part, and believe me to be, with great fmcerity, 



Dear Sir, 



your obliged humble fervant, 



JAMES ANDERSON. 

 Mr, Wm. Matthews. 



DEAR SIR, 



I Write thefe few lines merely as a fupplement to 

 my paper on wool-bearing animals. The fmall 

 fpecimen inclofed is the half of a tuft of wool which 

 Sir J.Banks fent me, that was plucked from the back 

 of one of the Jamaica breed of fheep juft come into 

 England. The owner of it, when Sir J. B. wiflied 

 to fee the wool of ii, told him at once that it carried 

 no wool, but hair. When he pulled the tuft and 

 examined it, he was afloniflied to find fo much very 

 fine wool among a very particular kind of kimps, as 

 you well fee when you examine it. 



Only 



