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fattefl cattle; which has been an adonifhing injury 

 to the community, viz. a fmall or middling family 

 could difpenfe with a leg of mutton 5lbs. or 61bs. 

 but cannot on any account buy one of 14 or i5lbs. 

 befides the flrong, naufeous, cadaverous tafle of the 

 latter, compared with the fine flavour of the former. 



Now, another whim is fet on foot of crofhng the 

 breed of fheep far and wide. To what purpofe? 

 Anfwer, none at all. Reafon : the exercife of a little 

 of that fcarce commodity, common fenfe, would effect 

 the bufmefs without all this parade, buftle, expencej 

 none knowing why or wherefore, only that they 

 would not be the lafl in the fafliion. Speaking with a 

 South-Down Farmer at the Wool-feafl:, 1794, my 

 advice to him was " to encourage the whim, and 

 ** make the moft of it, for you may depend on it 

 " that it will not lafl: ; for common fenfe had no 

 " hand in it; befides, you cannot but laugh in your 

 ** fleeves at them, as you yourfelves have tried the 

 " experiment on almoft every farm on the South- 

 " Down, when the fon has thought himfelf wifer 

 *' than his father, and moft of you have repented 

 *' and gone back again to the plain common fenfc 

 " of your anceftors." 



The pamphlets which have been publiflied on this 

 fubjeft, and have fallen into my hands, are not worth 

 noticing: The hiflory of the woollen trade is treated 

 of in a compendious view, and well worth perufal, 

 by Mr. Dyer, in his poem called t/je Fleece, but 

 |his is not the bufmefs in hand, Term^ 



