56 of foeep—conclusion. Sept. 18. 
‘rothly, That much depends on the care and kill 
of the fhepherd, to meliorate the fleece, augment the 
size, ard correct the form of theep, even to that of the 
horas, by pasture, exercise, and above all by the 
judicious choice of rams, on which much depends; as 
not alone beauty and other desirable qualities, but 
deformity and even disease may be propagated and 
handed down through many generations. 
tithly, And lastly, I think one might almost ha- 
zard an opinion from Dr Pallas’s information, that 
by care and attention to the fleece of lambs, of the 
Tcherkefsian, Boucharian, and Tauric varieties, from 
their birth to a certain age, a valuable fur trade 
might be carried on with the north and China, where 
they are in such high estimation with the rich and 
great, as a winter drefs, even more than our finest 
Siberian furs, at least in Rufsia and Poland. 
Nay even common fheep skins, however coarse, 
with the care and skill applied to every manufacture 
in Great Britain, would soon set at defiance all 
northern competition, and come to the widest mar. 
ket of any article of commerce ; as every peasant has 
an outer winter garb, and most of the superior clafs- 
es as a morning gown, have at least one fheep skin 
man’s blister, seems as !ittle tempting to fheep, as the joiner’s po- 
Jifher. 
The 4th is common on the sides of rivulets and lakes in Scatland. 
And asto the 5th, I hope it will never be brought over to Scotland, even 
for the botanic gardev, if we are to credit Linnceus, that several fo. 
‘reign plants have planted themselves over a whole province,the seeds 
being carried by the winds from such gardens as they were introduced 
jato Jor curiosity. ‘Arcticus, 
