260 WOLDS. 20. 



XVII. SHEEP. The flocks of the Wolds are 

 fome of them very large. One, at leaft, fo 

 high as two thoufand ; eight or nine hun- 

 dred of them ewes ; the reft wedders and 

 yearlings. 



The breed is a variety of the long-wooled 

 fpecies. Some of them very handfome, re- 

 fembling the prefent breed of Leicefterfhire, 

 but more active. The wedders will fat at 

 two-fheer (that is, two to three years old) to 

 thirty pounds a quarter. Clip about fix 

 pounds of wool : the length ten to thirteen 

 inches. 



Some years ago a crofs of this breed with 

 the large breed of Lincolnihire, was intro- 

 duced upon the Wolds, to the no fmall lofs 

 of fome of the Wold farmers. One of them, 

 calculates to have loft feven hundred pounds 

 by a diforder in the head, called the " me- 

 grims," which this ill-judged crofs were fub- 

 ject to. He returned again to the Wold 

 breed, and the diforder left his flock. 



Every country appears to have a natura- 

 lized flock of fheep at leaft belonging tQ 

 it. By neglect this flock will degenerate. 



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