144 Letter from R. R. Livingflon, to Arthur Youngs Efq, 



every teftridion has not a contrary effed from that intended, 

 by ftimulating the exertions of thofe v/ho think themfelves 

 injured, and inducing them to annex an imaginary value to 

 the obtaining of the prohibited object. We have acquired 

 (in defiance of their laws) fheep from England and Spain. 



I have imported fome from Holland, which are fuperior in 

 fliape, though not in fize to either; and indeed fo greatly 

 refemble your drawings and defcriptions of Baekwell's fheep, 

 that I am inclined to think they have made the bafis of his 

 flock; they are fnort and fquare, without horns; the head 

 fmall, and free from v/ool; the tail fmall and pointed, about 

 eight inches long, covered with hair, or fhort wool; the 

 bones very fmall. The ram yields fix pounds of wool, of very 

 good quality, and about fix inches in length, I fend you a 

 fmall fample of wool, from a flock of fheep which I received 

 from the Weft-Indies, and which had originally no wool, but 

 was covered v/ith a thick coat of red hair : this is changing 

 into wool, which I think fuperior in finenefs to that of 

 Shetland, with which I have compared it ; but what is very 

 remarkable, is, that the wool is white, though the original 

 colour of the flieep, and the hair intermixed with the wool, is 

 of a mahogany colour, or what is called blood-bay in horfes. 

 I fhall, if you requeft it, communicate the further alteration 

 that thefe fheep undergo from the chajtigc of climate, as well 

 as the nature of the mixed flock, as I am crofTmg them with 



