Fine- Woolled Spanifh Sheep. '353 



Tbreeds of fheep with the Spanifh, more than one hundred 

 ■'rams and fome ewes. In order, however, to make the 

 benefit of this vakiable improvement in the ftaple com- 

 modity of Great Britain, acceffible to all perfons who may 

 choofe to take the advantage of it, his Majefty is this year 

 pleafed to permit fome rams and ewes to be fold, and alfo to 

 command that reafonable prices fliall be put upon them, 

 according to the comparative value of each individual; in 

 obediencetowhich.it has been fuggefted that five guineas 

 may be confidered as the medium price of a ram, and two 

 guineas that of a ewe ; a fum which it is believed the pur- 

 chafer will in all cafes be able to receive back with large 

 profit, by the improvement his flock will derive from the va- 

 luable addition it will obtain. 



Though the mutton of the Spanifli flieep was always 

 excellent, their carcafes were extremely different in fhape 

 from that mould which the fafhion of the prefent day teaches 

 us to prefer ; great improvement has however been already 

 made in this article, by a careful and attentive feleftion of 

 fuch rams and ewes as appeared moft likely to produce a 

 comely progeny ; and no doubt can be entertained, that, in 

 due time, with judicious management, carcafes covered with 

 fuperfine Spanifli wool may be brought into any fliape, 

 whatever it may be, to which the intereft of the butcher, or 

 the caprice of the breeder, may chufe to affix a particular 

 value. 



Sir Jofeph Banks, who has the honour of being intruded 

 with the management of this bufinefs, will anfwer all letters 

 on the fubjeft of it,' addrefled to him in Soho-fquare. The 

 rams will be delivered at VVindfor; the ewes at Weybridge, 

 in Surrey, near Oatlands. 



As thofe who have the care of his Majefly's Spanifh flock 

 may naturally be fuppofed partial to the project of intro- 

 ducing fuperfine wool in thefe kingdoms, it has been thought 

 proper to annex the following notice, in order to fhow the 

 opinion held of a fimilar undertaking in a neighbouring 

 country, where individuals, however they have miftaken 

 their political intereft, arcjrather remarkable for purfuing 

 and thoroughly weighing thi.irown perfonal advantage in all 



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