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the winter storm, as many of them have been known 

 to lie below the snow for eight or ten days and still 

 survive and thrive afterwards. The most rugged 

 mountains in Ireland, even those that are of little 

 value to either proprietor or tenant at present, could, 

 without much loss of time, be turned to advantage 

 by pasturing with these kinds of sheep, and will be 

 found the best means for clothing the poor of that 

 country ; nor is any extra labour requisite except 

 herding, and one man with a sagacious dog, will be 

 found capable of attending to a thousand of these 

 sheep ; this is frequently the case in Scotland. 

 Scotch ewe lambs of this kind could easily be ex- 

 ported from Argyleshire, the distance between that 

 part of Scotland and Ireland being so very trifling. 

 The very remotest and poorest islands of Scot- 

 land are now stocked with these profitable sheep, 

 which greatly enrich the country, and have brought 

 in a great extent of land which was formerly of little 

 or no value, either to proprietor or tenant ; so much 

 so, that before this, many proprietors did not well 

 know the bounds of their own ground. The Irish 

 mountains have advantage over the Scotch both as 

 to climate and rich natural grass, which are far su- 

 perior to the coarse grass and cold climate of Scot- 

 land ; so that if any considerable number of lambs 

 were imported into Ireland, they would in a few 

 years multiply to that degree, that wool in that coun- 

 try would soon be both as plenty and cheap as in 

 Scotland. As one foot of pasture ground produces 

 more natural grass than three in Scotland, so that 

 the poor inhabitants of Ireland would soon be equal- 

 ly well clothed with the Scotch people. I am well 

 aware that in many parts of Ireland great numbers 



