4GltlCULTURAL MUSEUM. 



OVNIS FERET OIvmiA TELLUS. TIRe;^ 



Vol. I.] Georg&toi02i, Cjl. Dzc. 21, 1810. [No. 13. 



Extract from Lord SomerpiUe's Essay on Sheep. 

 Continued from page 186. 



To concladethis subjectt— When we cortsider the dif^* 

 fereni; latitaiics, which, from authentic documents, w6 

 find congenial to the finest wooled sheep, the extremes 

 .of heat and cold from sixty two degrees north, to thirty, 

 live degrees souh liititnde, as Sweden, Denmark, Ger- 

 many (for that also manufactures cloths of the very 

 finest quality from Spanish shefp, loni^- established there); 

 as Holland, Spain, and the colonies inland from the Cape 

 of Good Hope, where the wooi of t!ie Merinos has ra- 

 ther improved than degenerated; few men will hereaf- 

 ter venture to assert, that we, who are placed between 

 both, ci^nnot maintain, in all its purity, that which orijjin- 

 ally, it is said, belonged to Great Britain. 



The author has fteqaently endeavoured to impress oii 

 ^he minds of the landed proprietors of Scotland, the •!)- 

 solute necessity of providing some rude, but secure shel- 

 ter, for the ^ocks which range during winter on the 

 moor-lands and mountains ; but his labour was of no 

 avail. His idea was, supposing a tract of such land to 

 consist of 1200 acres, to class it in two or three divisions, 

 Jthe best adapted of which to be preserved entire for win- 

 ter-keep ; not suffering it to be depastured at all after 

 the month of May, in order to get a head of grass or 

 sheep-keep of such quality as it may be, and on it to 

 erect a rude and cheap circular building, similar to any 

 of those before described. 



On muirs of this description, springs rise in such num- 

 bers as to produce many mosses or bogs ; the quality of 

 the hcrbagie growing on these is ©ften ^ood enough to h^ 



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