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" sometimes fresh, at others dried ; the fruit and husk of the 

 " horse chesnut, bran, potatoes, carrots, beets, beans, grain of all 

 kinds, and every sort of turnips and cabbages. To these kinds 

 " of food some proprietors of flocks add salt water and other me- 

 " dicaments ; others use them occasionally, and some entirely 

 " omit them. 



" Under this diversity of climate, soil, and treatment, than 

 which the mind can scarcely picture a greater, the Merino race 

 of sheep has been found by experience to thrive and produce 

 wool, which is, in every respect, fully equal to the very best of 

 the native growth of Spain. These facts prove that it is the 

 " peculiarity of breed, which we are to consider as chiefly pro- 

 " ductive of fine wool, in spite of the operation of other causes ; 

 " and that the Merino breed is capable of bearing its transcend- 

 " ent fleece in this* or any other country, in which it can subsist 

 " in sound and robust health." 



M. de Lasterie observes, that the fine wools of Spain depend 

 neither on travelling, nor on the soil, nor the climate, nor the 

 pasture, but on other causes, and that it is possible to have in 

 France and elsewhere wool of the same quality, as that of Spain ; 

 that his travels in the north of Europe have offered facts and ob- 

 servations, and prove, that where sheep can be maintained, that 

 wool may be raised, which will make clothes as fine, as silky 

 and supple as those manufactured from Spanish wool. 



PLATE II. 



Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, exhibits four Iambs in different situations 

 upon the placenta or afterbirths, A, A, A, A, and represent them 

 issuing from the matrix, when the ewes are in labour to cast 

 their lambs. 



* England. 



