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adding to or fubtrafting from, as the cafe may re* 

 quire, every perfon may thereby be able to pafs a 

 better judgment of the matter in hand. Vague terms, 

 which afcertain nothing, only tend to miflead : the 

 Hampfliire, the Berks, the Surry, the Ifle of Wight, 

 SuiTex, Radnor, Shroplhire, Herefordfliire, Cheviot, 

 Shetland, Portugal, Barbary, Spanifli, Vigonia, are 

 all faid to be, by their refpeftive owners, very fine 

 wool, as good as any-body's, the bed in the neigh- 

 bourhood. Why fliould it not ? It fells always for 

 the beft price, and fo on ad infinitum. Here is no 

 goal, no road, no map, no guide, but only a mift- 

 maze from beginning to end, and therefore it oc- 

 curred to me to note the buying and felling prices as 

 near as poffible, at the time I allude to. In fhort, by 

 this means you are poffeffed of every datum you want 

 as to the above wool counties; and if compared with 

 all the others in England, Wales, Scotland, Shetland, 

 Portugal, Barbary, Spain, nay, the whole world of 

 wool, you may then with fafety pronounce this or 

 that county, farm, flock, or fleece, is good, fine, 

 fliort, or long, as it may be, and thus fliew your 

 judgment, without fear of being confronted to your 

 fliame by the mofl: knowing. 



To the beft of my knowledge, what is written, 

 unlefs otherwife expreflTed, is according to my own 

 obfervation and experience. Not being willing to 

 delay the information expefted from me, I have pe- 

 rufed the foregoing, hoping, fo far as it goes, it will 



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