64f Essay on Sheep. 



casion to express the high opinion which I, io 

 common with every other person, entertain of 

 Mr. Custis's patriotism, and of his animated 

 exertions for the improvement of this most 

 important branch of our rural economy. 



There still remains a breed of sheep to be 

 noticed, which might indeed more properly 

 have been mentioned before — the Thibet or 

 Cassimere sheep. These are said to carry finer 

 wool than those of Spain ; but from their remote 

 inland situation they are little known, though 

 I think I have been informed that one was 

 brought into England either by Lord Cornwallis 

 or the Marquis of Wellesley. We may form 

 some judgment of the fineness of their wool by 

 the shawls that are imported from India, and 

 which we have whimsically called camel's 

 hair shawls. These fine cloths are made for 

 turbans, and are of two sorts; the finest, I be- 

 lieve, never go out of India, as we may judge 

 by comparing those we meet wilh to Tavcrncr'sf 

 account of one presented to the Grand Mogul 

 of sixty yards in length, which was folded in a 

 cocoanut shell. The best arc made from the 

 wool plucked from the breast of a wild animal 

 which is not particularly described, but which 

 probably, as it is a native of the mountains, is 

 either the Vigone or some animal of the same 



