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In the lile of Wight, the Down wool is rather 

 finer than the Wilts; but they have a very bad cuf- 

 tom of making very long, fmall, hard bands, going 

 round the fleece three or four times; the wool in 

 thofe bands (if old) can never be properly forted. 



Inclofures and large farms have gradually intro- 

 duced a larger fort of flieep, and eonfequently coarfer 

 and deeper in the ftaple, and in the fame or greater 

 proportion leflened the quantity of fliort or clothing 

 wool, whether to the emolument of the community 

 at large or not, is a queftion; my decifion is on the 

 negative fide. 



The whim of the day, the introduftion of Mr. 

 Bakewell's breed, has anfwered many people's 

 ends, whofe interefl: it was that this whim ftiould 

 take place and be continued ; but of a woeful ex- 

 periment to many who purfued this whim ; the in- 

 troduftion of the goggles, a difeafe not known to 

 our unwife forefathers, but fpread far and wide by 

 their wifer children ; befides thwarting the univerfal 

 Difpofer of all creatures, who hath placed the fmaller 

 cattle, vegetables, &c. on the hills, and the larger 

 in plains and low lands; and the folly of putting fuch 

 large rams to fuch fmall ewes is double folly, fome 

 having loft the greater part of their flock thereby. 

 The goggles have nearly overthrown the whim of 

 large (heep, introduced at firft by fome noblemen, or 

 men who had large eftates in their hands, and vied 

 with each other who Ihould produce the largeft, and 



