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wes of the improved breed, fummcrcd in 



incloled grounds, feven pounds, at 5d 35*. 



Wool is here fold by thejlom of feventeett 

 pounds. 



The markets for CARCASES are, the market- 

 towns in the neighbourhood, and the ports of 

 Scarborough and Whitby. 



The price of mutton in the markets of the 

 Vale, ten years ago, was twopence halfpenny 

 to threepence a pound. This year (1787), 

 fourpence to fourpence halfpenny a pound. 



But the moft driking evidence I have any 

 where met with of the recent rife in the 

 price of live (lock may be taken from the 

 Moreland Jiore fheep ; a fpecies of flock 

 which has undergone no change whatever ei- 

 ther by breeding or by cultivation. . 



The price of Moreland (lore ewes, ten or 

 fifteen years ago, was twofhillings and fixpencc 

 to five Shillings a-head. This autumn, they 

 were fold for eight Shillings and fixpence. 

 The price of Moreland ftore wedders, the fame 

 time ago, was fix to eight fhillings a-head. 

 This autumn they have been fold for four- 

 teen fhillings I 



Q^4 R A B- 



Non of the fheep from which the above fleeces 

 Tverc taken were fulved. 



