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The STOCK of the Morelands is principally 

 Jhcep. Upon the " high-moors" they arc the 

 only flock. On the lower borders, and on 

 the margins of the cultivated dales, young 

 cattle are kept upon them a confiderable part 

 of fummer. But, in a general light, SHEEP 

 may betaken as the flock of the Morelands ; 

 and though they be thinly flocked, the num- 

 ber on the whole is confiderable. 



In flocking thefe mountains with fheep, 

 the general calculation is, I believe, one fheep 

 to ten acres. The number therefore kept, on 

 the foregoing calculation, is twenty to thirty 

 thoufand. 



Thefe fheep live entirely upon the " moor," 

 from their being a year old until the time 

 of their being fold off; which, formerly, was 

 not until they were four or five years old. 



The yearly profit of a Moreland fheep 

 (very fmall, fee Art. SHEEP), allowing for 



attendance 



* This thiftle has no other fpecific difference which 

 I have been able to difcover, from the c arduus paltiftr'it, 

 except the thicknefs of its flem ; which, upon thefe dry 

 barren bleak hills, will fomctime be equal in fize to 

 the largeft walking-cane. There is a variety of it with 

 white flowen. 



