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measures may be judged of by the other ; for the 

 height of a sheep is a third less than his length : for in- 

 stance, a sheep three feet long, is only two feet high. 



Q. What are the principal distinctions in the wool ? 



A . The wool is white, or of a bad colour ; 

 Short or long ; 

 Fine or coarse ; 

 Soft or harsh ; 

 Strong or weak ; 

 Nervous or weak. 



Q. What are bad colours in wool ? 



A. White wool only will receive lively colours in 

 dying : the yellow, red, brown, blackish or black are 

 used only in coarse manufactures ; or for the cloth- 

 ing of country people, when of inferior quality ; but 

 such wool as is fine, is used for stuffs which retain 

 the natural colour, and is not sent to the dyer. 



Q. What are locks of wool, and what difference is 

 there in their length ? 



A. Locks of wool are composed of many filaments, 

 which touch each other at the end. Each lock forms 

 a separate tuft of wool, in the fleece. The shortest 

 wool is only an inch long, the longest is more than 

 fourteen inches ; there is wool of all lengths, from one 

 to fourteen, and even to twenty -two inches. 



Q. What difference is there, in point of coarseness, 

 in the filaments of wool ? 



A. There are very fine filaments, in all kinds of 

 wool, even in the coarsest ; but however coarse or 

 fine wool may be, the coarsest filaments will be at 

 the ends of the locks ; by examining these filaments 



