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ty years. Sucti being the evident permanency of 

 breeds, let me recommend this circumstance very 

 warmly to the attcHtion of all who wilh to engage 

 seriously in the improvement of their fheep. But let 

 no Iheep rearer ever forget, that it is the breed of 

 fheep which, on his own particular gang, and noton that 

 of another, yields him the most profit, that is the 

 kind he ought to rear, whether it carry coarse or 

 fine wool, or whether it be in vogue at the time, or 

 the reverse. It is money only that snakes the pot t» 

 boil. And let him also advert, that, if breed be so 

 powerful in improving, it is equally efficacious in de- 

 teriorating a flock ; so that he ought to take great 

 care how he alters that breed which he already pof- 

 sefses ; and on no account ought he to introduce a 

 strange ram into his flock, till the superior qualities 

 of that breed over his own have been ascertained in 

 the most indisputable manner by clear and decisive 

 experiments. 



Jas. Anderson. 



ON TAXATION. 



Amongst the various departments In the science of 

 politics, I believe there is none in which lefs pro- 

 grefs has been made, in point of improvement, than 

 that of taxation. Notwithstanding the numerous 

 and deep disciifsions, that almost every branch of the 

 1 revenue laws has undergone, both in and out of par- 

 liament, we find ourselves loaded with taxes, tliat 



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