try. Vour Lordship is most heartily Vvclcome to u&c . 

 my letter as jou please." 



Itniav raise a smile to notice the circumspeclion tbi^ 

 youHo- fanner thinks it necessary to use ; but thus it is^, 

 tliat every new proposition is at first received: fortu- 

 nate, indeed, is that which, after a hipse of two, or overt 

 t«n years, produces any visible effect. It is very sin- 

 cerely to be wished that others, when open to convictS- 

 on, would have the courage and candour to confess afe' 

 njut h. 



It would not be advisable to close this subject without, 

 reverting, after additional experience of five years, to 

 6!ich parts oft'ie subject before discussed, as depend on 

 experiment for coniirmation or refutation. And it may 

 safely be asserted, that what was expected to happers-, 

 has, in almost, if not in every iu'^tancc, come to pass ; not 

 only so, but the Merino Sheep imported, bring now «ea5^ 

 soned to the climate, have, from frequent barrenness and 

 want of milk, become regular in their period oflambing/ 

 and, their age couaidercd, excellent as nurses. 



It never v/as even surmised, that in their wool tlK'y 

 would degetieratc ; but on the contrary, it was distinct- 

 Iv ma ntaint- d, that it would become finer, and upon obj» 

 vious principles ; and theie is not a shadow of doubtt 

 that it has so been proved, Ilavitig studiously avoided 

 any cross with otha,),- Hocks, tiiis proof may be consider 

 ed as absolute ; a judgi-nei:fc was not formed, from sair.v 

 pies pickjr*^! here and thei-e, but from pieces of cloth ani:^ 

 nually e^^hibited, even to tlie prcseist season, arid in vd 

 ry considerable nunjbers, some of which were never 

 ■exce-eded in quality, and but rai^ily if ever equalled,. 



} 4G\ it Tiot be supposed, that a conviction of the sup** 

 viority of his own, which \vas made up from many dil" 

 fercnt Ti.ashumante's or travelling Hocks in Spain, over 

 Qther flocks ojgcnuine bioqd, exists in the mind of the 

 giuhoi'. Frcru one animal he has drawn ail his improve- 

 ment; for jvhilst \ic was breeding froiri.kinj,^ to. cbtoifv 



