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** ever bred, and who well knew how to go fafter, 

 " than the age in which he lived, in this branch of 

 ** fcience) with wilful procraftination in giving fym- 

 *' metry, fine wool, fine quality of mutton, and fmall 

 *' heads and legs to the old Leiceflers (naturally the 

 " coarfeft: and mod unprofitable breed of flieep in 

 " the Ifland) which he might have done in three 

 " years as well as in five-and-twenty, and not have 

 *' left his work unfiniflied ; as he certainly would 

 '* have bred them finer in the flefli and fleece if he 

 " had lived, as his lateft: improvements evidently 

 '* make appear. A ftrong inlbmce in favour of 

 " crofllng (ufing the belt fort a$ a bafis only) is 

 ** the ram I fliewed at Barh, being a compofition of 

 " the Exmoor-forefl: ftieep, the South-Devon, the 

 " Difliley, and the Somerfet. And I have a three- 

 *' ijear old (leer, now fatting, upon land that a few 

 " years ago was dear in five fiiillings an acre, which 

 *' I mean to fliow at the next annual meeting at Bath, 

 *' half French and half Devon, got by the bull at 

 *' Petworth out of a very fmall Jerfey cow, that 

 " will, before Chriftmas, be dead ripe, and worth 

 *' at lead twenty-five pounds, two-pence per pound 

 *' better in quality, and riper at three years old, 

 ** than the Yorkfliire, Herefordfliire, or long-horn 

 *' cattle are at feven, the Suflex at fix, or the Devon- 

 *' fliire at five ; and I have fome two-year old fheep 

 ** now fatting, bred f*-om ewes which I had catched 



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