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latter of Mr. Collins, and other attentive 

 breeders, in the neighbourhood of Darling- 

 ton, on the banks of the Tees. 



Fortunately, perhaps, for the Vale, two of 

 its moft confiderable farmers, to whom it is 

 principally indebted for its prefent improved 

 breeds of (lock, differ in their opinions re- 

 fpecting the fupcrior excellency of thefe two 

 breeds of fhcep ; each of them propagating 

 and encouraging his own favorite breed. 



Both of them are excellent, though per- 

 haps widely different in their origin.. Of the 

 lylidiand breed I fay nothing in .this place, 

 as I may hereafter have occafion to fpeak of 

 it fully. The Tees-water breed fails within 

 the intention pf the p-refent work. 



T^e *? mud" (beep have been inhabitants 

 of the banks of the Tees time immemorial. 

 1 semember them twenty years ago of enor- 

 mous fize, refembijng, when their wool was 

 ia fu)l growth, the fmalltr breeds of cattle 

 rather than fhcep. Their feflj neverthelcfs 

 was of an excellent quality ; their wool (as 

 long wool) fine, and of an uncommon length^ 

 fingularly adapted to the worftcd maau- 

 faflory. 



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