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" in wild from ihe/ea cliffs at 6s. per head, got by 

 *' my own rams, uniting more good qualities and 

 " nearer to perfeftion, according to the principles 

 *' laid down by Mr.BAKEWELL, (which I believe to 

 " be juft) than any I have yet feen produced from 

 " ewes purchafed at fix or ten guineas a-piece. — 

 " Therefore, having obferved the improvements in 

 " flock to be uniformly the fame in all the different 

 " breeds and croffes that I have tried, I cannot now 

 " forbear venturing an opinion, which is, that the 

 " Devonfliire catde, and Mr. Bakewell's new va- 

 " riety of ilieep, though capable of improving all 

 " the other forts in the ifland in a very great and 

 " flriking degree, are themfelves flill further to be 

 ** ameliorated and improved by a judicious admixture 

 " of blood; and therefore I cannot forbear advan- 

 *' cing, with fome degree of confidence, what I con- 

 *' ceive to be as interefting to the community as it 

 " may be mortifying and perplexing to fome of the 

 " great breeders of the North, (who have been all 

 " their lives only following and groping in the dark 

 *' and myflerious paths of nature after the great lu- 

 *' minary that is gone, without having difcovered any 

 " of his ways) that at prefent there is fio known beft 

 " breed of cattle or fheep; and that every fpecies of 

 *' domeftick animal is to be advanced in like manner 

 *' as the horfes of this country have been improved 

 " by croffing with the Arabian, Perfian, Turkifh, 

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