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MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER. 



1 HE necessity I was under of sending the 

 preceding part of this little treatise to Albany 

 before the Legislature rose, though in an un- 

 finished state, prevented my adding several 

 matters that might properly have been digested 

 into the body of the work, and which I must 

 now either wholly omit, though they are useful 

 to be known, as illustrative of several assertions 

 which I have made therein, or throw them to- 

 gether in this indigested form. I have prefer- 

 red the latter, and only pray that this chapter 

 may be considered as a page from a memoran- 

 dum book in which no order is to be expected. 

 Having been so fortunate as to excite the at- 

 tention of my fellow citizens to the improve- 

 ment of their breed of sheep, and this not only 

 among experienced farmers, who need no in- 

 struction, but among a great number of those 

 who have not heretofore felt interested in the 

 subject, it is probable that, after having read 

 what I present for their consideration, they will 

 be inclined to look into the British writers. 



