Essay on Sheep, 65 



species. The other, which compose the finest 

 exported from India, is made from the wool of 

 the Cassimere and little Thibet sheep, these 

 countries being in the vicinity of each other. 



Having taken a cursory view of the different 

 breeds of sheep, which I conceived would af- 

 ford matter of amusement to my readers, and 

 perhaps lead to deductions useful in the im- 

 provement of the breed, which, however, I 

 shall not attempt to make at present, I will pro- 

 ceed to such practical observations as may be 

 found useful to those who have given less atten- 

 tion to the subject than I have done, or who 

 have not the means of knowing what more ex- 

 perienced farmers have written on the subject. 



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